Re: What is the point of RAID?
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote
> about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?':
> >The other thing to consider as that you don't necessarily need the same
> >performance/protection for the whole dataset on a system.
>
> Yeah, I can understand that. I use software raid-1 for /boot, software
> raid-0 for (a) directories I consider "owned" by package management, so
> that reinstalling from fast net or local mirror solves that problem and
> (b) "throw-away" data like /var/tmp, and hardware raid-5/6 (depending on #
> of drives) for real data like /home, /srv, /var, etc.
At which point you might as well use two or more swap partitions with the
same priority (and _not_ on top of a raid device), to get high-speed swap as
if it were raid-0'ed. After all, a single drive crash WILL bring your
system down anyway...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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