On 5/22/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/22/07, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt> wrote: > > 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? > > Create two raid partitions. One for /boot, and the other to be used > as the physical volume of a volume group, and then use lvm to carve > out your remaining partitions. > Oh, yeah, I would suggest raid 1 unless your data is not that important or real solid backups are in play, and you need performance more than data integrity. Cheers...james