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