[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 on Large Disks.

Tue Oct 23 15:29:02 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

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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