In article 47ED53AA.6040000@pagestation.com, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
part of my kickstart file is now:
clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=20000 part --ondisk=sda swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2 --size=4000 part --ondisk=sda raid.02 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda3 --size=1 --grow part --ondisk=sdb raid.03 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sdb1 --size=20000 part --ondisk=sdb swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --onpart=sdb2 --size=4000 part --ondisk=sdb raid.04 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sdb3 --size=1 --grow raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.01 raid.03 raid /home --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.02 raid.04
Leaving aside the ondisk/onpart issue which has been answered, I see you are keeping the swap partitions as individual devices.
I prefer to raid1 the swap as well, just like the filesystems. If you lose a disk and some memory is swapped out to the failed disk, your system will very likely crash. If swap is mirrored too, the disk failure should not crash the system, since the same data is on the working disk.
Cheers Tony