Re: [gentoo-server] RAID 1+0 question

[Marton Gabor]

Hi!

Another mail said that the kernel cannot be placed to a RAID5 array, 
only to a RAID1 array, so who's right? Or did I got something wrong?

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xyon wrote:

>(4 X 250GB ) - (1 X 250GB) = 750GB without hotspare. Although having a
>hot-spare may be worth it.
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>You should be able to RAID-5 /boot and all other partitions (minus swap,
>of course). As long as the RAID modules are built into the kernel and you
>have a functional raid config, you should be good.
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>On Thu, March 2, 2006 11:19, Marton Gabor wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately
>>we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID.
>>Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need
>>let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk,
>>and I can build a RAID5 from the rest of the storage space, and will be
>>able to use 750GB-(/boot*4)-(swap*4) and the 4th HD will store the
>>so-called parity information.
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>>Marton Gabor
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