On 2/4/07, Dale <lists at ehome.net> wrote: > > If there is a web resource on how to do this I would very much > appreciate a pointer to it. The Gentoo site at <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml> has this advice: [quote] /dev/sda /dev/sdb Type /dev/md1 /boot /boot Raid-1 (mirroring) swap swap Normal partitions /dev/md3 / / Raid-1 (mirroring) /dev/md4 LVM2 volumes Raid-0 (striped) Important: The partition you boot from must not be striped. It may not be raid-5 or raid-0. Note: On the one hand, if you want extra stability, consider using raid-1 (or even raid-5) for your swap partition(s) so that a drive failure would not corrupt your swap space and crash applications that are using it. On the other hand, if you want extra performance, just let the kernel use distinct swap partitions as it does striping by default. [quote] Like Dennis Miller, "they could be wrong about that." OTOH, you could get a 3ware RAID controller and run RAID1 and even a hot spare. ldv