on 2/1/2008 3:57 PM Dean Maluski spake the following: > I've googled this question without a great deal of information. > Monday I'm rebuilding a Linux server at work. Instead of purchasing 3 > drives for this system I purchased 4 with intent to create a hot spare. > Here is my usual setup which I'll do again but with a hot spare for each > partion. > Create /dev/md0 mount point /boot RAID1 3 drives with 1 hot spare > Create two more raid setups > /dev/md1 mount point / RAID5 3 drives with 1 hot spare > /dev/md2 mount point /home RAID5 3 drives with 1 hot spare > Now do I create partions of equal size for each set then if I remember > correctly when creation the RAID there is a check box for hot spare. Do > I just marry the 3 equal partions, click the check box and assume the > system will find the partition of equal size and use it when needed? > Makes no sense to me. > Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the > question for obvious reasons. Your raid0 swap will be a weak link if your system is swapping when the drive dies. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080201/07391286/attachment-0005.sig>