Re: Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system

[maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>]

On 3/25/2013 5:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> ..Oh that's a totally different scenario.
> I thought you wanted the raid10 array for /home or /data or whatever.
> That's pretty messy, actually, even on Fedora 18/19 which has the 
> benefit of a new anaconda and GRUB2.
> GRUB2 definitely can assemble md raid10, and read most any file 
> system, find /boot, and load the kernel and initramfs.
> That's not something I think GRUB Legacy can do, which is what CentOS 
> 6 is using.
>
> ..
>
> I'm unsure of your use case, but I'm thinking you may be better off 
> with a small SSD for the boot, swap and system disk,
> and then use a separate raid10 array for /home, /opt, /data, whatever 
> else you want.
> Otherwise it's a bit of a rabbit hole.
>
Fair enough then.

What about partitioning the drives first, installing a smallish 
partition for boot, then a second much larger partition on each for the 
RAID10?
Do you think that the CentOS installer and GRUB would have any issues 
with that layout?


Thanks Chris.

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Maurice Hilarius
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