[arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

[Louis Brazeau]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes I am very familiar with that Wiki article but find Swap on RAID is
> useless, no? For my scenario I was going to do the following and
> please correct me if you think this is wrong:
>
> - sda1 = 100MB
> - sda2 = 1GB
> - sda3 = 300GB
>
> - sdb1 = 100MB
> - sdb2 = 1GB
> - sdb3 = 300GB
>
> - sdc1 = 100MB
> - sdc2 = 1GB
> - sdc3 = 300GB
>
> Then:
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
>
> Then mount /boot on /dev/md0. Does that look correct or can I not do
> RAID1 on 3 devices? Should I have added '--spare-device=1' to that
> command?
>
> Now I would do:
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2
>
> Then mount / on /dev/md1.
>
> Do both commands look OK?
>

Yes, both look ok to me.

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Louis Brazeau
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