[CentOS] Steps to create a mirrored CentOS system?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 04:30:02 UTC 2007


Dale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am about to re-build one of my boxes with CentOS 4.4 I would like to 
> set it up as a simple mirrored system.
> 
> The box is a 1U server and has 3 SCSI drive bays. I can use 1 drive as 
> the OS drive and the other 2 for the content (basically websites) or can 
> just use 2 drives and mirror those.
> 
> What would you folks recommend?

You'd have slightly better performance if you put / and swap on the 
first drive and make /var a RAID1 with the other two drives.  You'll 
have better fail-over protection if you use 2 drives with all partitions 
mirrored.  You'll have to decide which is more important.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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