Quoting Ez-Aton, from the post of Mon, 20 Dec: > >as raid1. I can have swap partitions without RAID and the backup > >directory as RAID0 instead of RAID1 for instance. > > > >questions - > >1. Is that the best methodology to follow? any other recommendations? > > > I would have recommended using raid0, but once upon a time, when a disk > crushed, and I lost 80 gigs of data (these were the days when 40 gigs > were large disks), I saw, or better - felt the negative results.
that's why I use that for the backup. I stage a backup of the site on the RAID0 space, and then RSYNC it away from there. plus this is a temp thig. I'm pretty sure we'll use a third drive for swap and backup one day. > > 2. Am I risking anything by installing reiser3 (kernel 2.6.8) on an > > >MD device? > > > Should be no reason. thanks, that's the part that had me worried the most. -- Bringing balance to The Force(tm) Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
