dmwyatt
December 6th, 2010, 08:50 PM
I'm trying to come up with a plan for my home server and just wanted to discuss my options.
I have three 1.5TB hard drives that, at first blush, I would put into a RAID 5 array created by mdadm. In fact, I just did this with a 10.10 live cd to do some testing.
In my ideal world, I would install Ubuntu to this array. However, I would like to take the majority of the space of these three drives and pool them with other RAID 5 arrays I have in the system via LVM2. I don't know how well this would work.
Basically my questions boil down to this:
Can Ubuntu be installed on a mdadm-created RAID 5 array?
Would I be better off making smaller partitions on the three 1.5TB drives, make a RAID 5 array out of those partitions, installing Ubuntu on that array, and then making a RAID 5 array out of the remaining space on those drives so that I can then add that to my LVM volume group?
Any thoughts about how you would structure this?
I have three 1.5TB hard drives that, at first blush, I would put into a RAID 5 array created by mdadm. In fact, I just did this with a 10.10 live cd to do some testing.
In my ideal world, I would install Ubuntu to this array. However, I would like to take the majority of the space of these three drives and pool them with other RAID 5 arrays I have in the system via LVM2. I don't know how well this would work.
Basically my questions boil down to this:
Can Ubuntu be installed on a mdadm-created RAID 5 array?
Would I be better off making smaller partitions on the three 1.5TB drives, make a RAID 5 array out of those partitions, installing Ubuntu on that array, and then making a RAID 5 array out of the remaining space on those drives so that I can then add that to my LVM volume group?
Any thoughts about how you would structure this?