Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
>>
>>>>> What advantages, if any, would lvm have over this set up?
>>>>
>>>> How about flexible filesystem resizing? If you did it the way I
>>>> suggested: 512MB /boot, 512MB /tmp, you have like 960GB of space to
>>>> carve anyway you like. You also get lvm snapshots which you won't
>>>> get with raid seeing that this is supposed to be a backup server too.
>>>
>>> Yea, I think for these reasons I will use lvm. I have set up a
>>> system as follows:
>>>
>>> /boot raid 1 200mb 4 drives no spares (I guess this makes 4 copies of
>>> the data?)
>>
>> You have four disks which will be paired into two pairs. If one pair
>> goes, everything goes. Might as well use one pair for /boot and the
>> other for /tmp.
>>
> I'm not quite sure I understand? This is raid1, not raid10. While I'm
> not sure exactly how raid1 works with 4 drives, I'm assuming everything
> is a copy of a copy of a copy...
> So how would 2 drives going out kill the whole raid1 device?
NOT everything is raid1 now is it? Your data/system is on raid10 RIGHT?
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