Re: A question about RAID and partitions

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On 5/22/07, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I am about to begin the installation of a small server (no more than 20
users), using CentOS with Samba to authenticate Windows XP workstations. A
question arises about the organization of the filesystem. I hope that more
experienced and knowledgeable users here will be able to give me some
precious advice.

I have 2 120GB SATA disks on which to install the OS. I want to create the
following partitions:

/boot
/
/tmp
/var
/home
/swap

Two options are now present to me:

- Create a single RAID 1 device with both entire disks and then partition on
top
- Create several RAID devices, one for each partition (md0, md1, md2 and so
forth)

Which one would be better from the points of view of performance, security
and data recoverability?

Create two raid partitions.  One for /boot, and the other to be used
as the physical volume of a volume group, and then use lvm to carve
out your remaining partitions.


Cheers...james
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