From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maurice Subject: Re: Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:05:57 -0600 Message-ID: <5150E665.2090902@gmail.com> References: <515089B1.9010607@gmail.com> <51509025.2060402@gmail.com> <5150DC08.8000702@gmail.com> <4C0D23B0-8ABA-4086-BF42-774EF7F0C817@colorremedies.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C0D23B0-8ABA-4086-BF42-774EF7F0C817@colorremedies.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Murphy Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Cheers, Maurice Hilarius eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/