[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

[Scott Silva]

on 2-18-2009 10:13 AM dnk spake the following:
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> On 18-Feb-09, at 9:14 AM, Scott Silva wrote:
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>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
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>> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html
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> If i am to understand the tutorials right, does one create the raid/lvm
> after install? Or do you boot off the disk, use these tools, then
> install on existing structures. I was trying to do it through the disk
> druid during install.
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You can make LVM over raid 1's in Disk Druid, but I don't think it will do
raid 10. And you cannot boot from software raid 5 (yet).


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