[Giorgio Pioda] > Hi, > > given that I'll install a mainserver on real hardware (Yes, 99% I'll > jump onboard), and given that I have HP-Proliant servers with > hardware raid (cciss or whatever is called)... > > I hope I'll not start a terrible flame... > > Well I allways have the same doughts: 4 disks raid 0+1 or raid 5 (4 > disks, or 3 + 1 spare), or even other setups. > > Have you any recommendations?
At work, at the University of Oslo, we commonly use two disks in RAID0 as the operating system disk, and RAID5 on X disks for data. I believe the cause is to make sure the OS can be booted also without RAID support in the hardware, and without a BIOS that understand RAID5. Also, this allow us to move the data disks to a different server where the OS is already working, if we have to. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
