Re: raid10??

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:23:25AM +0100, randall wrote:
>
> i have just installed with the debian installer making 2 x raid1 and
> then glueing them together with LVM
> 256 MB /boot raid 1 (on all 4 disks)
> 10 GB /root raid1 + lvm
> 1 GB /swap raid1 + lvm
> 500 GB unused raid1 + lvm
>
> (i wasn't very sure what to do about the swap but i think this means
> slower but securer in a case of crashing)
>
> till so far the performance feels pretty snappy but i still have to do
> some benchmarking and remove a few random disks to see what happens.
>
> anybody ever reliably used a set up like this in production?
>

I run a similar setup on many production servers. On one, for example, I have four disks. I create two RAID1 arrays, /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. Then I create a LVM volume group, adding both /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 as physical volumes. Then I create whatever logical volumes I want. It works very well.

Regards,

-Roberto

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