On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:54 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > I have a new server to setup. 4 hard drives and I had intended it to be > > hardware raid but that's a long story. > > > > Does it make sense to set up the first two hard drives with RAID-0 > > partitions and then get through the install and then go back later and > > then create identically sized RAID-0 partitions on the other two drives > > and finally create the RAID-1 mirror from the first to the second? > > > > No. That just makes it so that if you have a failure you won't be able > to boot, which kind of defeats the point of having a RAID array. Make > your /boot partition a RAID1 partition right off the bat. That is so you > can tell GRUB to boot from any of the drives. You can choose RAID10 > directly for the rest of your drive with the 5.4 installer. ---- yes, I understand about /boot I didn't know that RAID-10 was an option now in the installer...problems are solved Thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.