Hi admins, I'm about to buy a custom build server and wanted to know to configure the RAID. This will be the first time I have configured a RAID from scratch and I am a little un-sure about how the layout of the system. The server will primarily be used as a file server, uses a 3Ware SATA 8 port card and will serve about 50 users. There will initially be 4- 5 disks installed. I would like one as a hot-spare but it isn't written in stone at this time. My own thoughts were to keep the root file system outside of the RAID. This would allow me to do a complete OS re-install without effecting the RAID. There are a couple of reasons why an OS re-install might be desirable: I may change my distro (currently slackware) and I may choose to try the i64 instead of i386 (AMD Opteron). This is just my thoughts and there may be some good reasons for not configuring the system in this way. If you have any please let me know. What about swap? How should you configure the swap space on such a system. Can swap space be assigned to a RAIDed file system? Should it? Is there anything else I should be thinking about or any documents should read (I tried tldp.org but nothing struck me). Any thoughts? Thanx. Dp. ~~ Dermot Paikkos * dermot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
