On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Noe <knoe501@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well shoot! Thanks for the link. Definitely explains allot! I'm going to
> update the box with the latest HP SPP and double check the updated driver
> is available.
>
> With this RAID controller and 4x 1TB are there any recommendations on the
> best way to install CentOS? Should I skip the controller, config disk as
> JBOD and RAID from there? I'd like to get the OS on a RAID but should I
> just build the OS on one disk and then RAID the remaining three?
>
> Sooo many choices.... Just need a box that is stable, has some type of
> redundancy and plenty of space.
>
> Thanks to all for your advice. I appreciate the help and guidance.
If you don't mind losing half of the space and having that divided,
the old-school approach would be to make small-ish /boot and swap
paritions and the rest / on the first pair of drives, all as RAID1,
with the 2nd pair also RAID1, mounted as /home or /opt, depending on
what you intend to put there. There are more convenient and
generalized approaches now which I'm sure someone else will describe.
I still do it this way sometimes because (a) it is faster than a
RAID5, especially for writes, (b) if you lose a drive it still runs at
full speed in degraded mode, and (c) if the machine melts and all you
can save is one drive, you can plug it into any matching controller or
usb adapter and recover the files from it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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