From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID? Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:17:26 +1200 Message-ID: <44FDDB56.3030304@sauce.co.nz> References: <44FD722C.7050608@waldoware.com> <44FD91D1.7090501@maine.edu> <44FDAF3E.1090209@waldoware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44FDAF3E.1090209@waldoware.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is a timely thread for me, as I am about to setup a software RAID 10 (a striped pair of mirrors), on 4 x 500GB SATA. Anything to watch for by not partitioning the drives at all? Or is it safer to make one partition, slightly smaller (suggestions of how much welcome), than the full drive, to allow for possible size discrepencies with replacemnets. Also I am wondering as this is RAID0 on top of RAID1, if there are any special steps that need to be taken when maintaining the array (adding, removing, rebuilding etc), compared with a "single layer" RAID? Regards, Richard