Terry Zink <tzink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > When I am forced to, I put /boot on a small raid1, and the rest on the raid5. I have /boot on a raid1 set across four disks, and in theory, I can put any one of them in the "boot disk" slot and boot the machine. I haven't tried it yet though. I also raid1 my swap partitions (in pairs, no point wasting space) so if a disk goes down, it's never a single point of failure.