I'm not sure what you mean by "get real old stuff for your controller". The controller is brand new, although the pc is a few years old. The controller is si3114 based. What's so quirky about it vs si3124? Here's the way I plan to set things up. Please let me know if this is worse then what you suggest. 4 partitions per drive 1st partition - 200 mb 2nd partition - 250 mb 3rd partition - 5gb 4th partition - 745gb Md0 raid 1 with 2 spares - 1st partition of all drives - /boot Md1 raid0 - 2nd partition of all drives - swap Md2 raid6 - 3rd partition of all drives - / After install create Md10 raid10 - 4th partition of all drives - /data What advantages, if any, would lvm have over this set up? Russ Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: Feizhou <feizhou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 20:15:35 To:CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Anaconda doesn't support raid10 > I have 4 500GB drives. Seems kind of a waste to put just /boot swap and > / on the first 2 drives. > Unfortunately this is my backup server, and also file server. While I > may move the file server part out to another box in the future, for now > it's going to be serving two roles. I would like to be able to depend > on it. > In the future I might set up a backup of this server to be on Amazon's > S3. Is there a linux program that interfaces with it? If this is a file server too, may I suggest that you keep system stuff separate from your data like Les says he does? Did you have to get real old stuff for your add-on 'raid' controller? A newer and less quirky si3124 based controller cannot be much more expensive than what you have given that you have a four port card. Please put boot and /tmp (maybe 512MB/1GB each) on its own mirrored partition, then make two nice big mirrors from the rest and use lvm to stripe them. That way, you don't have to make a lot of partitions to balance usage to get a four big partitions to get your 'raid10' array. anaconda supports this kind of configuration easily and you can also create the volumes for swap, /, whatever_you_fancy_partition, maybe /opt, /usr/local, /home with anaconda. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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