From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing a failing drive from multiple arrays
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:31:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F918F5C.2000607@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20369.29756.761374.308057@quad.stoffel.home>
On 20/04/2012 15:35, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> Bill> I have a failing drive, and partitions are in multiple
> Bill> arrays.
>
> Ugh! Why? This is why I love LVM on top of MD. I just mirror
> drives, then carve them up as needed. Yes, you need to have two (or
> more) drives of the same approximate size, but that's easy.
>
> Mirroring partitions just seems to be asking for trouble to me.
On small machines (3-6 drives) I will regularly have a RAID-1 /boot,
RAID-10 swap and RAID-5 or 6 everything else, done with partitions. I do
use LVM too though - that "everything else" will be LVM over the big RAID.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 18:54 Removing a failing drive from multiple arrays Bill Davidsen
2012-04-19 21:52 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-20 14:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-22 22:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-22 22:55 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-25 0:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-20 14:35 ` John Stoffel
2012-04-20 16:31 ` John Robinson [this message]
[not found] ` <CAK2H+efwgznsS4==Rrtm6UE=uOb25-Q0Qm84i8yAJEJJ2JLdgg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-04-22 18:41 ` John Robinson
2012-04-26 2:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-26 6:19 ` John Robinson
2012-04-26 7:36 ` Brian Candler
2012-04-26 12:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-26 13:23 ` Brian Candler
2012-04-26 21:17 ` Bill Davidsen
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