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From: xyon <xyon@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] RAID 1+0 question
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:03:01
Message-Id: ME-1FEQug-0000Jn-1o@indigorobot.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] RAID 1+0 question by Marton Gabor
1 I'm no genius, but if you just want the 'one big drive', why don't you do
2 2xRAID-1, and then use LVM to span the two remaining 250GB? Seems like it
3 would be a lot less work.
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6 On Wed, March 1, 2006 07:40, Marton Gabor wrote:
7 > Hi!
8 >
9 > I'm going to recieve 4x250Gb SATA disks to our new server, and my first
10 > idea was to make 2xRAID1 and then make 1xRAID0 out of the RAID1 arrays
11 > using Linux software raid so that I have our data mirrored and still I
12 > can use 500Gb storage space and handle it as one big "disk".
13 > So my questions would be:
14 > - could someone give me a good howto? Sorry, but I have never had
15 > the chance to make a RAID array before and I have no experience and
16 > Google doesn't seem to be helpful in this case.
17 > - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any
18 > arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0?
19 >
20 > I'm looking forward to your ansvers.
21 >
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