On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:18:10AM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > i just bought a motherboard with onboard SATA RAID and two SATA hard drives > for my linux box before i realized that you can't utilize the onboard RAID > controller when installing linux. so i'm left with linux's software RAID > option. For what it's worth, the "onboard" RAID of most motherboards is actually software RAID as well. And Linux's implementation is likely better anyway. > i've seen two software RAID setups and i'd like to ask your > opinion on them: Also, I'd recommand not using RAID 0 -- there's really not much point, since you can mount partitions whereever you want and put symlinks however you want. Basically, all RAID 0 does is double your chance of catastrophic drive failure. Personally, I use RAID 1 -- mirroring -- for my home system. > the first method is simpler, but has the disadvantages of having a > needlessly large /boot partition and also not having swap on the RAID. are You don't need to have swap on the RAID partition. In fact, if you have swap on two disks, Linux can (it's the default, even) intelligently round-robin between them. But really, if you're using *any* swap, it's time to get more RAM. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
