Re: RAID on partitions and partitions on RAID

2007-07-29 Thread Michal Soltys
Cry Regarder wrote: Thanks! A couple questions: 1. Are you sharing that spare with an other array? If not, why not do a raid-6 instead of a raid-5? No, the spare is not shared. Now that I think about it and you reminded about raid-6... I can think of one small plus of my setup - that

Re: RAID on partitions and partitions on RAID

2007-07-28 Thread Michal Soltys
Cry Regarder wrote: Partitions on RAID: Back to when I constructed the array, I placed an ext3 partition directly on /dev/md0. Since construction, I have expanded the array by two disks, but have not at this time resized the ext3 partition. What I would like to do is put a swap partition

Re: RAID on partitions and partitions on RAID

2007-07-28 Thread Michal Soltys
Michal Soltys wrote: Cry Regarder wrote: one hot spare. Each disk is partitioned in the same way - 64mb boot partition identical on each disk, and each disk is bootable (sdX1), swap (sdX2), partitionable (sdX3). sd[abcde]3 raid has GPT partition - 1st one is used by LVM2 for the usual