Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Gear
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > ... >>>Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would >>>someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the >>>simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - >> >>It's not supported on / or /boot

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WA9ALS - John wrote: >> Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would >> someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the >> simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with R

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > If you value low downtime, then swap belongs in RAID1 or a hybrid scheme > > (such as RAID 10). > Just a newbie question. In a hybrid scheme, do I need 4 raid > partitions on 4 different disks? Which raid level comes first, in other > words: shoul

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:47:04AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:47:04 -0300 > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sarge RAID install > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? > > none .. i suppose ... > > but if /dev/hda dies .. you can still be working off /dev/hdc > along with all your data Exactly. If the drive that hosts the swap partition dies, the kernel goes completely craz

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Gear
Alexei Chetroi wrote: > ... >> in /etc/fstab >> /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. >> /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? If one swap disk dies and you've been using it for swap, your system will crash. If yo

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > in /etc/fstab > > /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. > > /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? none .. i suppose ... but if /dev/hda dies .. you can still be worki

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:19:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: WA9ALS - John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sarge RAID install > > On Sun,

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - > John if you're using the sar

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Paul Gear
WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - It's not supported on / or /boot - see the thread "Ran

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Laurent CARON
WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases

Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread WA9ALS - John
Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases that are over my he