[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 on Large Disks.
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Oct 23 15:29:02 UTC 2007
on 10/23/2007 3:21 AM Anup Shukla spake the following:
> Morten Torstensen wrote:
>> Anup Shukla wrote:
>>> So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the "system" drive.
>>> Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS)
>>
>> If you use a hardware RAID adapter, you can make two LUNs from the
>> disks. So make one big RAID5 array but two logical drives. I would
>> still use LVM anyway for management down the road.
>>
>> Not all hardware RAID adapters might support this, but if yours does
>> you will get data protection for "free" on your system drive.
>>
>> //Morten
>>
>
> Thats making me feel miserable .. ;)
>
> I had this thought, and then a message on the list said the same and now
> one more message saying the same.
>
> I am literally scavenging through Dell PERC guides to find out if and
> how this can be done.
>
> Hope this is possible with Dell PERC.
>
> Regards,
> A.S
If you have it I think the option is called flexraid on a perc.
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