> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carlos Mennens > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:00 AM > To: Mdadm > Subject: Re: RAID Configuration For New Home Server > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:54 AM, <tron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There are about as many answers to this as there are people using your > > setup so let's all agree that there's no "one way" of doing things. > > Thanks for all the suggestions and you guys are right. There will no > right or wrong answer here but I just want to make sure I am not doing > anything that will hinder / limit performance in my system. At most my > system will simply idle and do nothing more than store a few files for > me so I think RAID5 is going to be my selection for my / file system. > I have 4 identical drives and need to partition them all the same to > avoid any inconsistencies across the RAID array. Since Grub doesn't > support RAID5 for /boot, I will need to make a 4 disk RAID1 for /boot > & do the same for Swap. Does this look reasonable to you guys? > > Partitioning the 1st disk below: > > /dev/sda1 100 MB - RAID (bootable) > /dev/sda2 2 GB - RAID > /dev/sda3 320 GB - RAID > > Do that same partition schema above for all 4 drives and then create my > RAID: > > / > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 > /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 > > /boot > mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 > > Swap > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=1 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 > /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 It's certainly workable. You might consider something other than RAID1 for your swap partition. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
