On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:19 -0500, Chuck Rock wrote: > Is it just me, or does anyone see something seriously wrong with the > Software RAID example? > > http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/3/docs/html/rhel-sag-en-3/ch-software-raid > .html > > Figure 12-4 > > Isn't RAID supposed to be redundant disks, not redundant partitions? If that > hda disk goes bad, the raid and redundancy is nowhere to be found along with > your data. Right? > > Is there a way to make each disk a single software raid partition, then use > slices of that partition for your drive partitions with LVM or something? I > basically want to encapsulate the partitions for the operating system with > RAID so that if a disk drive fails, it can be repaired. > > I have never used this function before, so set me straight if I'm just > missing the point. Under CentOS 4 all I did was create a 100MB /boot & /boot2 partition as primary partitions on each drive and then made the rest of each disk a raid partition, created md0 and then specified that it was part of a LVM group in disk druid and finally split up the volume group into separate partitions. Paul