On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:27 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > So, is it not possible to have multiple RAID5 partitions, or is this a > > temporary limitation of debian-installer? > > I might have misinterpreted your question earlier as "creating multiple > partitions within a single RAID5 array", which is why I suggested LVM. > > I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be possible to create multiple > partitions /of/ RAID5, that might look something like this, for example > (ignoring the grub/lilo boot problem for a moment): > > sda: > sda1 > sda2 > sda3 > > sdb: > sdb1 > sdb2 > sdb3 > > sdc: > sdc1 > sdc2 > sdc3 > > RAID5 (1): sda1 sdb1 sdc1 > RAID5 (2): sda2 sdb2 sdc2 > RAID5 (3): sda3 sdb3 sdc3
Yes, I had considered doing that. And I'm sorry to keep harping on the same question, but I thought that RAID5 was capable of having multiple partitions in one array; is it? > I've done similar with RAID1 in the past. It seems very messy to me now, > and I much prefer to just have the one partition and put LVM over the > whole lot. Because I have no experience with software RAID, encryption, or LVM, I am a bit nervous about getting very many "layers" (/ on a logical volume on an encrypted partition on RAID5 on three+ physical hard drives). Redundancy doesn't do me any good if I can't figure out how to see my data via a LiveCD. > > And crypt? > > Don't know an awful lot about crypt, sorry. But from what I remember, it > integrates with LVM very well. Thanks again for your help. Now I need to throw all this into Qemu and try it out... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
