Re: "big" machines running Debian?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/26/2009 05:49 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:51:29AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > my rule of thumb is to always have atleast 2 partitions on the first 2
> > drives (3 if I have them), for a raid1 /boot and a raid1 /. the rest of
> > the space is put into a raid device then into lvm.  That gets rid of the
> > interesting tweaks.
>
> Even with software raid1, setting up reliable boot from either drive
> if one fails can be interesting, but it has gotten a lot better than it
> used to be.
>
> > is that monitoring of the raid drives or the actual drives underneath, I
> > like having smartctl to give me access to the actual drive health
>
> Well monitoring of raid health would be minimum.  Getting more details
> would be nice.

As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares.

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