(4 X 250GB ) - (1 X 250GB) = 750GB without hotspare. Although having a hot-spare may be worth it.
You should be able to RAID-5 /boot and all other partitions (minus swap, of course). As long as the RAID modules are built into the kernel and you have a functional raid config, you should be good. On Thu, March 2, 2006 11:19, Marton Gabor wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately > we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID. > Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need > let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk, > and I can build a RAID5 from the rest of the storage space, and will be > able to use 750GB-(/boot*4)-(swap*4) and the 4th HD will store the > so-called parity information. > > 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
