Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a "new-style" Soft-RAID-5 > configuration. At the moment I have > > 1. partition sd.4 swap > 2. partition sd.3 ext2 (for squid) > 3. partition sd.1 raid-auto > > This of course means I have to have the whole md device under one > mountpoint (the directories under which are the targets of symlinks under / .) > > I'd rather be able to have a real seperate partition on the array for at least > /home. > > Is it feasible to split the raid partitions (sd.1) on the disks and create an > md0 and an md1, or does this hamper performance? > > Thanks > > Christian > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
I'm looking into making a raid setup also, and I'm not familiar with the "new-style" you're talking about. You would have to resize all of the partitions on each drive. I'm not too familiar with Raid5. Does the parity partition have to be the same size as the data partitions? -- Mike Fedyk "They that can give up essential liberty Information Systems to obtain a little temporary safety Match Mail Productions Inc. deserve neither liberty nor safety." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Franklin
