> Jamie > > My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid > > disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. > > Is there a good reason for that? > > I would be thinking to make a small boot partition (100M or less) > and use the initrd to establish the drivers and get the RAID running. > Then put a copy of the boot partition onto every drive so that the > partition tables are the same and so you will always be able to > boot (and put grub on every drive too). > > Then you can have your entire system running on RAID and use all > 4 drives in a symmetric manner.
Sounds a good plan. I was only following the recipe in the article; three disks with raid 5. My object is not speed, but a bit more reliability. Disk failure seems to be more prevalent these days. Daniel Philips gave a very interesting talk about his raid 3.5 at linux conf. Unfortunately it doesn't have the rebuild code. >From what I can glean, either of the mboards I mentioned should be able to do what I want. Thanks Jamie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
