On 20/04/2012 15:35, John Stoffel wrote:
Bill> I have a failing drive, and partitions are in multiple Bill> arrays. Ugh! Why? This is why I love LVM on top of MD. I just mirror drives, then carve them up as needed. Yes, you need to have two (or more) drives of the same approximate size, but that's easy. Mirroring partitions just seems to be asking for trouble to me.
On small machines (3-6 drives) I will regularly have a RAID-1 /boot, RAID-10 swap and RAID-5 or 6 everything else, done with partitions. I do use LVM too though - that "everything else" will be LVM over the big RAID.
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