ljwobker
January 1st, 2009, 11:24 PM
I'm building a new install for a box that will primarily be a fileserver, but also other random things along the way.
I'm considering setting up my disks in the following format, but wanted to ask the collective group for any suggestions or improvements over what I have here.
Physical disks:
1x old 36GB raptor (this will be root, boot, swap, etc) -- eventually I'll probably replace this with a basic solid state drive for added reliability and since I don't need very much space anyway, but I have the old raptor lying around. Logic here is that I don't want to mess with running the system on RAID (no performance concerns) and it seems like having the OS on a small, separate drive makes sense when I have the space in the case anyway.
2x 1TB seagate SATAs -- I'm planning on INITIALLY setting up a two-drive RAID 5 array, the logic being that when I add a third drive I can just grow the array. This is opposed to initially setting up a RAID 1 array and then converting it to RAID 5. Anyone see any problems here?
right now I'm planning on running LVM, but I'm not 100% clear on how the LVM <--> mdadm interaction works, any thoughts here would be greatly appreciated.
I plan on basically creating one very large /home mount in the LVM that runs on top of the RAID -- is this the right way to have expandability in the future? I *think* I can just add another drive, grow the RAID 5 array, and then extend the LVM volume and /home magically gets bigger... yes?
So... what have I not considered? ;-) thanks!
I'm considering setting up my disks in the following format, but wanted to ask the collective group for any suggestions or improvements over what I have here.
Physical disks:
1x old 36GB raptor (this will be root, boot, swap, etc) -- eventually I'll probably replace this with a basic solid state drive for added reliability and since I don't need very much space anyway, but I have the old raptor lying around. Logic here is that I don't want to mess with running the system on RAID (no performance concerns) and it seems like having the OS on a small, separate drive makes sense when I have the space in the case anyway.
2x 1TB seagate SATAs -- I'm planning on INITIALLY setting up a two-drive RAID 5 array, the logic being that when I add a third drive I can just grow the array. This is opposed to initially setting up a RAID 1 array and then converting it to RAID 5. Anyone see any problems here?
right now I'm planning on running LVM, but I'm not 100% clear on how the LVM <--> mdadm interaction works, any thoughts here would be greatly appreciated.
I plan on basically creating one very large /home mount in the LVM that runs on top of the RAID -- is this the right way to have expandability in the future? I *think* I can just add another drive, grow the RAID 5 array, and then extend the LVM volume and /home magically gets bigger... yes?
So... what have I not considered? ;-) thanks!