From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
To: Adam Talbot <ajtalbot1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID partitions, or RAID disks and partition array?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:28:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140822172840.GA3843@lazy.lzy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_2Ghc3tW4rD_iS7LO47ot6xURJq-RTrEyd3Z-swN2vA=4pPA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:52:11AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote:
> I hope this is an easy one. I have two drives I would like to mirror
> as my boot drive.
> 1) Should I mirror the drives, then partition the RAID device (md0)?
> 2) Should I partition the the drives then RAID the partitions?
>
> What is the best practice, and why?
Hi Adam,
if I understand it correctly, being a boot drive,
you'll have to install a boot loader, so you'll
need some space between the beginning of your data
(or RAID in this case) and the boot loader.
This means, as far as I know, your *only* choice
is to partition.
Or I miss something...
bye,
pg
>
> Thanks
> Adam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-22 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 16:52 RAID partitions, or RAID disks and partition array? Adam Talbot
2014-08-22 17:28 ` Piergiorgio Sartor [this message]
2014-08-22 17:30 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-22 18:34 ` Chris Murphy
2014-08-23 1:18 ` NeilBrown
2014-08-23 22:20 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-24 10:53 ` David Brown
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