I know what you're thinking, but that's not exactly what I'm trying to do.... Scenario: I have one IDE (120GB) that has 3 partitions on the drive(/hda1, /hda2, and /hda3) where /hda1 is /boot, /hda2 is /swap and /hda3 is /....the server is only being used for SAMBA administration with a bunch of file shares on it, no Apache, QMail, etc....just plain old Samba. Right now the server does not have any 'real' data on it, just user accounts and the shares have been created however. I have installed (3) 36GB SCSI drives with a controller card, etc. that I want to use as a safeguard for the SAMBA file shares mentioned above. A friend of mine told me the goal would be to partition each SCSI drive the same way I did the IDE drive. The second goal would be to rsynch changes from /hda1 to /sda1 and from /hda2 to /sda2 and from /hda3 to /sda3......this way, if the IDE goes down, then the boot image is on the raid device and can boot up like 'nothing happened' Question #1: Is this the proper method for allowing the raid device to boot up in case of IDE failure? Question #2: do you recommend raid'ing the swap space? I've heard mixed reviews. Question #3: how many md devices do I set up? One for /hda1 to /sda1, sdb1, sdc1 and another md device for the /hda3 to /sda3, sdb3, sdc3? assuming no on the swap space. Question #4: based on that, does this look like a reasonable mkraid file? this assumes 3 md devices. /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 chunk-size 64 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithm left-symmetric nr-raid-disks 3 device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 2 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 5 chunk-size 64 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithm left-symmetric nr-raid-disks 3 device /dev/sda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc2 raid-disk 2 raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 5 chunk-size 64 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithm left-symmetric nr-raid-disks 3 device /dev/sda3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb3 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc3 raid-disk 2 Question 5: What would the next steps be? would I then run the mkraid commands, one for each md device? Thanks for your help. jr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
