I'm no genius, but if you just want the 'one big drive', why don't you do 2xRAID-1, and then use LVM to span the two remaining 250GB? Seems like it would be a lot less work.
On Wed, March 1, 2006 07:40, Marton Gabor wrote: > Hi! > > I'm going to recieve 4x250Gb SATA disks to our new server, and my first > idea was to make 2xRAID1 and then make 1xRAID0 out of the RAID1 arrays > using Linux software raid so that I have our data mirrored and still I > can use 500Gb storage space and handle it as one big "disk". > So my questions would be: > - could someone give me a good howto? Sorry, but I have never had > the chance to make a RAID array before and I have no experience and > Google doesn't seem to be helpful in this case. > - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any > arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0? > > I'm looking forward to your ansvers. > > Marton Gabor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<ICQ UIN: 169394884>,<T: +36 30 447-2042> > VE-MIK > VeHoK informatikai megbizott > informatika-l adminisztrator > informatika-lev adminisztrator > bsc-info adminisztrator > gazdinfo adminisztrator > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Steven McCoy Site Development/Manager IndigoRobot Services http://www.indigorobot.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
