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jarry@... wrote:
>Marton Gabor <gabor.marton@...> wrote:
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>> - could someone give me a good howto?
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>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid
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>> - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any
>>arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0?
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>You can make /boot on raid too, but only raid1. Dont forget to
>compile raid1 support into kernel, not modules. You can make
>/dev/md0 for /boot out of 4 small partitions (sda1,sdb1,sdc1,sdd1).
>All other partitions can be on raid0+1 or any other combination.
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>My own opinion: if I had 4x good 250GB sata drives, I'd probably
>do raid1 for /boot, and raid5 for rest...
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>Jarry
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...or RAID 6 if you're paranoid.
You might want to have a look at:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID_mirror_and_LVM2_on_top_of_RAID
Matt
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