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| From: | Matt Randolph <mattr@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question | ||
| Date: | Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:10:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | 44060C7B.9070400@erols.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question by jarry@gmx.net | ||
| 1 | jarry@×××.net wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | >Marton Gabor <gabor.marton@××××××××××.hu> wrote: |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | >> - could someone give me a good howto? |
| 8 | >> |
| 9 | >> |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | > |
| 14 | > |
| 15 | >> - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any |
| 16 | >>arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0? |
| 17 | >> |
| 18 | >> |
| 19 | > |
| 20 | >You can make /boot on raid too, but only raid1. Dont forget to |
| 21 | >compile raid1 support into kernel, not modules. You can make |
| 22 | >/dev/md0 for /boot out of 4 small partitions (sda1,sdb1,sdc1,sdd1). |
| 23 | >All other partitions can be on raid0+1 or any other combination. |
| 24 | > |
| 25 | >My own opinion: if I had 4x good 250GB sata drives, I'd probably |
| 26 | >do raid1 for /boot, and raid5 for rest... |
| 27 | > |
| 28 | >Jarry |
| 29 | > |
| 30 | > |
| 31 | > |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ...or RAID 6 if you're paranoid. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | You might want to have a look at: |
| 36 | http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID_mirror_and_LVM2_on_top_of_RAID |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Matt |
| 39 | |
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