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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:42 -0500, xyon wrote: |
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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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No! |
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Grub needs to be able to load the kernel, so you'd need to keep /boot as |
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normal / raid1 partition (raid1 partitions can be read without problems) |
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Apart from that, as long as the partitions are all type raid autodetect |
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(FD?) the kernel will automatically do everything on boot. |
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I have a hotspare in a 5-disk raid5, it's really neat - when a disk |
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fails there's a 2h window where the raid slows down a bit, then the |
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hotspare has taken over and you can just replace the broken disk. And at |
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~100Eur for one disk it's a "free" bonus ... |
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Hope that helps, |
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Patrick |
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