Les Mikesell wrote:
Ruslan Sivak wrote:
Yea, I think for these reasons I will use lvm. I have set up a
system as follows:
/boot raid 1 200mb 4 drives no spares (I guess this makes 4 copies of
the data?)
What't the point of putting this on more than 2 drives?
Well for one thing, if 2 drives fail and it doens't get a chance to
rebuild, then I still have 2 good drives. Another thing is if a drive
fails and the spare is in the wrong location, and the spare becomes the
boot drive, it won't be able to boot, but if all 4 drives are copies of
each other, then everything is well and good.
/ 10gb on lvm
/data 50gb on lvm
/backup 250gb on lvm
rest of space left free to allow for resizing and adding of
partitions with lvm
I will pull out a drive tommorow and see how resilient this is. Does
this sound like a good solution?
It is versatile, if you don't know where the additional space will be
needed but don't think mounting it as separate partitions in
subdirectories will be handy. I forgot to mention the other reason I
like straight RAID1 installs - you can easily clone a machine with all
of its current software by pulling a drive, booting it in a new
machine and rebuilding the raids on both.
I don't see why I can't pull out 2 drives out of this install (like 1
and 3), put them into another machine and let it rebuild itself.
Russ
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