On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> > > Â Â Â ÂWhat I meant was, you currently have a 2 disk RAID0. ÂWhy not buy a > larger disk and move the 2 drives currently tied up in the RAID0 to a 5 disk > RAID6 array with no partitions? ÂThe function currently provided by the 2nd > RAID1 can be taken over by the single drive, and the function of the RAID0 > can be taken over by a directory on the main array. ÂThis makes better > functional use of the space and may provide performance benefits, not to > mention being much simpler. ÂI'm a fan of having a separate, small disk for > booting. ÂMy servers both have a pair of small drives each partitioned into > three sections. ÂEach of the partition pairs are in turn assembled into a > RAID array for a total of 3 mounts: > > md1 - a tiny /boot > md2 - a small / > md3 - swap. > I believe that is essentially what I'm doing: - 2 drive RAID0 using 500GB drives is 1TB - 3 drive RAID1 using 500GB drives is 500GB - 5 drive RAID6 using 500GB drives is 1.5TB The RAID0 is moving to the RAID6 The RAID1 is moving to the RAID6 I'll purchase 1 additional 500GB drive to sit cold in my office in case I drop a drive in the RAID6. Sounds like it should work out well. I'll investigate using a different drive for booting. Thanks, Mark -- 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
