Thanks for your reply, we have the idea of having 4 disk in a RAID-1 this is feasible or that we recommend. greetings Luis > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:03:52 -0700 > From: pierce at hogranch.com > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Support for add disk SCSI > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > Luis campo wrote: > > > >> Thanks for your reply, > >> > >> The configuration I mentioned implies that each SCSI disk array would be > >> in a new partition? > >> > > > > Yes, if you want raid1. Other raid levels or LVM could group them into one. > > > > some confusion here, perhaps. I've noticed that many hardware raid > controllers use "raid1" to refer to both raid-1 (2 disks mirrored) and > raid-10 (2*N disks mirrored and striped). > > with 4 disks in a single raid, you would actually have a raid-10, which > is two mirror sets striped together). after building the raid in the > disk controller (or if its not a hardware controller, building a > software raid with mdadm), you would create a new file system on it with > mkfs, then mount it as a directory (adding it to /etc/fstab for > permanent use) so you could start putting files on it. I often mount > my 'aux' file systems as /u10, /u11, ... > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090908/51a72c93/attachment-0005.html>