Subject: Re: Xen and Raidframe
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/04/2006 17:02:12
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:23:01AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> One apparent option, for the production DOMUs, is to have matching
> partitions on each hard drive, and have the DOMUs do RAID themselves. A
> second is to use a large DOM0 partition, with RAID, and assign a DOMu a
> file in that partition. This strikes me as slower, but adequate for
> light-load and experimental servers.
The third (and I think most-used) option is to run the software RAID in the
dom0 and provide each domU with a block device on the RAID (e.g. raid0g).
The only challenge then (as well is with option two) is to teach GRUB, but
this has been discussed on this list before.
Geert