I have used software raid on all of my servers for about 5 years now,
Red Hat will allow you to install any partition on any part of the raid
setup. However, with raid level one you will find that the server runs
slower.
-Bill
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:00, Jamie Hushower wrote:
> Several years ago I wanted to use software RAID to creat a mirrored disk
> (RAID 1), but the Redhat setup would only allow partitions to be
> duplicated. Further, the boot partition could not be mirrored. As / was
> my boot partition, my setup was still susceptible to the failure of a
> single drive. I could, and did, mirror my /home partition to preserve my
> data in case of a failure. I am re-examining software RAID today because
> a bottom-of-the-line Dell server has *waaay* more juice than I need to
> run a mail and Web server. Can I use software RAID to create an exact
> duplicate of a drive- a true mirror?
>
> -Jamie
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