From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: anthony mayes <anmayes@siue.edu>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid0 + raid1 question
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:55:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009095500.GA20643@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F84793F.6060400@siue.edu>
On 2003-10-08T15:53:19,
anthony mayes <anmayes@siue.edu> said:
> I have 7 disks in an x86 box. I want to have 2 raid0's (concatenations)
> of 3 disks each. Then I want to raid1 (mirror) the raid0's. This
> leaves 1 disk for the OS.
That is a suboptimal allocation and will actually increase the
likelihood of failure. What you want to do is to have 3 raid1's of 2
disks each and to concatenate these 3 via raid0 or LVM.
And why are you not placing the OS itself on a RAID too? If the system
goes down, so will your application.
> with the afore mentioned configuration. First the mirror is broken and
> half of the mirror is mounted as another filesystem while the
> application continues to run on the other half of the mirror. The
> backup is performed and then the mirror is resync'ed. However, I want
> to move to x86 and linux and need to know if the same is possible and
> how to do it. Does anyone have any experience / advise?
You should concat the 3 raid1's via LVM and use LVMs snapshot facility.
(Google for the howto)
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 20:53 raid0 + raid1 question anthony mayes
2003-10-09 9:55 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-10-09 19:54 ` Rechenberg, Andrew
2003-10-09 21:00 ` anthony mayes
2003-10-10 2:37 ` Kevin P. Fleming
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