[CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions
Miguel Medalha
miguelmedalha at sapo.pt
Tue May 22 20:53:55 UTC 2007
Perhaps I am wrong but I feel that my question didn't receive an answer yet;
the discussion digressed a bit.
So, let me rephrase my question:
Which one is better, RAID devices created on top of partitions or partitions
created on top of RAID devices?
By "better" I mean under the aspects of data security, performance and
ability to recover from a disk crash.
Thank you again.
>I am about to begin the installation of a small server (no more than 20
>users), using CentOS with Samba to authenticate Windows XP workstations. A
>question arises about the organization of the filesystem. I hope that more
>experienced and knowledgeable users here will be able to give me some
>precious advice.
>
> I have 2 120GB SATA disks on which to install the OS. I want to create the
> following partitions:
>
> /boot
> /
> /tmp
> /var
> /home
> /swap
>
> Two options are now present to me:
>
> - Create a single RAID 1 device with both entire disks and then partition
> on top
> - Create several RAID devices, one for each partition (md0, md1, md2 and
> so forth)
>
> Which one would be better from the points of view of performance, security
> and data recoverability?
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