Les, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > Thank you for the recommendation. I really appreciate it. My concern is mostly for the data to be mirrored. Performance shouldn't be an issue. But I will think about which way would be best for my situation. One other thing, I once before tried setting up a mirrored system (was using the gui CentOS configuration) and wasn't able to figure out the proper steps to get the mirroring setup. If there is a web resource on how to do this I would very much appreciate a pointer to it. Thanks again! Dale