On 5/22/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Oh, yeah, I would suggest raid 1 unless your data is not that important or real solid backups are in play, and you need performance more than data integrity. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
