2009/2/26 Kelly Harding <kelly.hard...@gmail.com>: > 2009/2/25 Owen Townend <owen.town...@gmail.com>: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and >>> ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the >>> partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. >>> >>> If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I >>> should create a single partition spanning the entire drive and using >>> that instead of just using the drive in its entirety for the RAID? >>>
I've used RAID5 with the raid mounted from /dev/md0 with XFS filesystem directly on it, without issues. This works fine for large media volumes. My intention is to move /home to a RAID1 with LVM on top so I can change the size of the partitions on top of the RAID array and have it split into more than just /home should I feel th eneed. Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple times and had no problems with it. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
