Russ wrote:
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
Suit yourself. I personally do not see the point of 2 spares when your
system uses raid6.
Md1 raid0 - 2nd partition of all drives - swap
This is a no-no.
Md2 raid6 - 3rd partition of all drives - /
Overkill. Why have so many different raid running? Besides, raid5 has
been iffy and I wonder how stable raid6 is.
After install create
Md10 raid10 - 4th partition of all drives - /data
What advantages, if any, would lvm have over this set up?
How about flexible filesystem resizing? If you did it the way I
suggested: 512MB /boot, 512MB /tmp, you have like 960GB of space to
carve anyway you like. You also get lvm snapshots which you won't get
with raid seeing that this is supposed to be a backup server too.
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