> All of this was prompted because we just had an HDD failure and lost > about a month's worth of unarchived baby pictures; redundancy is the > primary issue. My wife's getting a new machine for her desk, so I'll > retire the old machine to the basement and pop in the RAID5 for file > serving and multimedia jukebox purposes. >
On my backend, I started with a large drive, one partition for os, email storage, etc, and then a second, large partition with LVM for mythtv. When I added a second drive, I made another partition the same size as the os partition on the first drive, and ran them raid1. I then added the remainder of the space to the LVM pool. That is definately a beautiful part of sotfware raid, you can pick and choose how you use it. Now my important data has raid redundancy, and my datastore partition (for shows/movies) gives me a huge amount of space. (BTW, there was someone here mentioning breaking up a raid array for the purpose of hiding bad sectors. Modern drives automatically relocate bad sectors. If you start to get errors from a modern drive, its a mechanical, electrical, or really big media failure)
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