[olug] two RAID arrays on install?

[Nick Walter]

You can do all the RAID initializing from disk druid right in the install.
Or afterwords if that tickles your fancy.

For partitioning, I would suggest you mount your RAID arrays somewhere where
they won't host any part of the O/S unless they are specifically intended to
do that.  It's nice to be able to take a troubled RAID array online and
offline without interuppting any other services on the machine.

Nick Walter


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan O'Rourke" <ryano at ch-gifts.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 6:07 AM
Subject: [olug] two RAID arrays on install?


> Hello,
>
> I am in the planning stages of building a new RedHat Linux file server
> at my workplace.
> The machine will have two separate RAID arrays: the first one will be 4
> identical SCSI drives totaling 12Gb utilizing RAID5 and the second array
> will be two identical 160Gb IDE drives utilizing RAID1.
>
> The first array will house the core OS and system while the second array
> will be used for office file storage.
>
> I'm wondering whether or not RH 8 will allow me to initialize both
> arrays during the install process or if I will have to create the RAID1
> array after the install.
>
> Also, I don't want to start a religious flame war here, but is there
> some sort of "standard" partitioning scheme used when creating a system
> like this? What would I call the RAID1 array? /opt, /var, /usr?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Ryan
>
>
>
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