Feizhou wrote: > >>>> What advantages, if any, would lvm have over this set up? >>> >>> How about flexible filesystem resizing? If you did it the way I >>> suggested: 512MB /boot, 512MB /tmp, you have like 960GB of space to >>> carve anyway you like. You also get lvm snapshots which you won't >>> get with raid seeing that this is supposed to be a backup server too. >> >> Yea, I think for these reasons I will use lvm. I have set up a >> system as follows: >> >> /boot raid 1 200mb 4 drives no spares (I guess this makes 4 copies of >> the data?) > > You have four disks which will be paired into two pairs. If one pair > goes, everything goes. Might as well use one pair for /boot and the > other for /tmp. > I'm not quite sure I understand? This is raid1, not raid10. While I'm not sure exactly how raid1 works with 4 drives, I'm assuming everything is a copy of a copy of a copy... So how would 2 drives going out kill the whole raid1 device? Russ