Re: RAID 5

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On 2000-11-23 14:40, Alson van der Meulen wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:43:24AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have 3 10 gig hard rives.  There is nothing on any system, would I
>> create a small partition on one of the drives (for example 100 - 200 meg
>>
>> Linux partition) to set everything up and use the source to recompile
>> the kernel?  Or do I just go ahead and set up my regular partitions and
>> then recompile a kernel with raid 5 support?  I am just confused with
>> the first few steps I should take.  Right now I have a CD with potato.
>> Thanks
>> Matt
>
>I suggest you have a few hundred meg partition for use as /
>
>it's much more easy to recover this from a rescue-disk then recovering
>a raid partition from a rescue-disk. you usually don't have all raid
>tools on a rescue disk.
>
>you can use RAID-1 for your / partition afterwards.

Good point.  One solution to this would be to create a CD-ROM containing 
everything needed to manage RAID etc.  The CD would only need to be the root 
file system, you could boot from a floppy to mount it.

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