On Apr 12, 2005 1:20 AM, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 02:07, Justin Conover <justin.conover@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > This kind of brings up another question, if I create a raid 5 with 3 > > or 4 disk and have my system only one 1 disk, and that one disk blows > > up. Will it be easy to replace that disk and see the > > raid5/lvm/selinux files? Or should I take the caution and put my > > system in a raid 1 too. > > With some effort you can have grub boot from a RAID-1 (I won't try to explain > how as I'm not an expert on booting, but it's something I've done before). > > You may decide to use non-RAID for /boot. After the kernel and the initrd > have been loaded the initrd can setup RAID so you can have LVM on software > RAID for the root file system (it's even supported in Anaconda). > > For a serious machine there are two ways of doing it. One is to have RAID for > all file systems including the root file system. The other option is to have > a kickstart configuration that completely describes the configuration of the > system so that the machine can easily be reinstalled at a moment's notice. > > For an ideal server room you would have RAID on the system partitions and swap > (so that a disk dying won't cause you to do any work at 3AM), RAID for data > partitions (of course!), as well as having a dedicated server for kickstart > that does DHCP and has NFS read-only shares containing every version of > RHEL/Fedora that you run on your network. To do this right the kickstart > server would be configured to assign a particular IP address and config file > to each machine based on it's MAC address so reinstalling any server could be > done by merely booting from a kickstart device (either CD or USB dongle). > > One thing I'm working on at the moment is a document on kickstart > configuration for SE Linux. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > Kickstart for SELInux would be great :D I did get the box up with 2x40GB drives fro /boot everything else under /lvm with seperate slices in raid 1 and 4x160GB drives in a raid 5 for /home -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
