> tolerant free system. Currently I have 1 server with 4 disks on it (3
> 9.OGB and 1 4GB on external disk bay).
On the 9 GB disks I would probably do
1x 5 GB partition
1x almost 4 GB partition
1x small partition for swap (30 MB or so, depending on total space)
On the 4 GB disk I would do
1x almost 4 GB partition
1x small partition (the same size as on the 9 GB disks) for kernel ('boot')
Then I would create:
- RAID 5 volume on 3x 5 GB partitions on the 9 GB disks
- RAID 5 volume on 4x 4 GB partitions on the remaining space on the 9's and
on the 4 GB.
- swap area on the 3 9 GB disks -- very fast, the kernel distributes the
load on them
You would have almost 22 GB of protected space. When the 4 GB disk would
fail, you could boot from the diskette using a kernel parameter like
root=0x900
to tell the kernel where's the root filesystem.
Egon
