> On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > If you have 2x4TB and you want to setup the lot for booting and > > data, I'd recommend doing like the NAS boxes I've seen (well, only > > QNAP 410 IIRC). On that one, they chose to create partitions for / > > and swap (and perhaps /boot), and equal-ish partitions for those > > used for data. On those, you can place a RAID-10, or perhaps two > > RAID-1s and use LVM to stripe them. The latter is far more flexible, > > as RAID-10 lacks most of the flexibility other RAID leverls have. > I have 4 x 2TB, actually. Erm, that's what I meant. I just wouldn't recommend using RAID-10, since it isn't very flexible. LVM on top of multiple mirrors is better. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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