> - Don't use RAID5 for your /boot or OS slices. If your raid > configuration gets messed up the system can't boot. A messed up mirror is > easier to recover from. RAID5 for your data is OK- since at that point the > OS is up and running. Some of my colleagues argue you shouldn't even use > a mirror for your /boot partition, but instead should just back it up to > another disk. >
At work I usually RAID 1 my 256 MB /boot with all the hard drives that are also in the raid5/6 arrays. This is usually 6 to 10 drives. On top of that I keep the OS on its own smaller raid 5/6. So my partitions on every disk are usually boot raid 1 (over all disks) swap (seperate swap on all disks) root raid (raid 5/6 over all disks) data raid (raid 5/6 over all disks) on top of the data raid I usually use lvm for simpler partitioning and spanning across a second raid if I choose to do that in the future. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba