From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Subject: Re: Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:37:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <26589278.14.1364330247753.JavaMail.root@zimbra> References: <51520563.6010700@harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51520563.6010700@harddata.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Maurice Hilarius Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > If you have 2x4TB and you want to setup the lot for booting and > > data, I'd recommend doing like the NAS boxes I've seen (well, only > > QNAP 410 IIRC). On that one, they chose to create partitions for / > > and swap (and perhaps /boot), and equal-ish partitions for those > > used for data. On those, you can place a RAID-10, or perhaps two > > RAID-1s and use LVM to stripe them. The latter is far more flexible= , > > as RAID-10 lacks most of the flexibility other RAID leverls have. > I have 4 x 2TB, actually. Erm, that's what I meant. I just wouldn't recommend using RAID-10, sinc= e it isn't very flexible. LVM on top of multiple mirrors is better. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt.= Det er et element=C3=A6rt imperativ for alle pedagoger =C3=A5 unng=C3=A5= eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilf= eller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer p=C3=A5 norsk. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html