"Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote:
> > I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a
> > RAID-0 array using the md driver.
> >
> > I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot
> > partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system
> > upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 -> 5.0 or 5.0->5.1.
>
> The only real "secret" is to not put any of the system stuff onto the
> RAID-0 array, since the Red Hat update scripts don't have any provisions
> for setting up the 'md' device. So anything installed off the CDROM should
> go onto the "boot" (non-md) partition.
This isn't good. The whole point of using RAID-0 was to get faster
transfers from the /usr, /var, /opt and /usr/src partitions. If I can't
do that and also upgrade striping looses its value (unless I do a
clean install).
Thanks.
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Eze Ogwuma
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