Ruslan Sivak wrote: > 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? NOT everything is raid1 now is it? Your data/system is on raid10 RIGHT?