From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqnYh-0004qf-4x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:31:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85686E031B; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3315EE031B for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9779B3DE4E8 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:31:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:31:50 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Message-ID: <20081017123150.24d36ca3@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48F86BB4.3060206@siemens.com> References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> <48F5EC89.9050704@tibyke.hu> <200810151522.46789.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <48F86BB4.3060206@siemens.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1cvs7 (GTK+ 2.14.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEX///9/OBwcKrgODnFG1FTxxqqqxpxGOBwOnA7/1dQOHBxiVH8OABwOVA4Of3G4cXD8PZSwAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAhZJREFUOI2l082L00AUAPAcbLS7isypB4VC8w+Iubl78JDDeAj0UnC91KKIomCL2MEa6CWHQRjYgygLwi4IroQIpSCiu0KlsILOooeuW1vmT1jYHtawsDJOJh/9SHPyQUgyP+a9mZeMovxHqPU0OSimwN2fc4df3Dnzy7iWHL+NMe6xq8nKEEKC7ZvJCbZtEBsPExMMo+cDm61/CppyBtlPZDINCWymimETA0qYzqVCg4Xwe7qEGQJmezO1YR/Og+d2DNM1rtuQ2ZD0ktDDA+zD9HLvbx308eAtZH1C2McJeLrlCtg1h58JcWl1DKhBGR58Mx/+NZ9RfTlOlkVXdt+RfWTVPUS7ur40BtRhePig+cSzqC6iFcFmo3MO752ucWDpmi8xOB0VbmRq3Ltc0Lviao1BMYtKJZ9ra8sCtEshOM5G5r1oMSi2NSqgoMdQVcS/lj1auUXdCVBR4829NUUplconnVc+aEERgJwvAKBas8TpzlkJQRGEXARE5Mve17pKfQj2eIIc6sdjfpHuLMgZQZFswz1eE1EeWT+qj8S4gFUJr91DeV9ZX7e6BQmtYLlu2NDzOUr19iSEJ6aSa3JuLcV93HRXAwD5Eud8W7Q+SIGssJ3gyAfudcOtf4igIjbvy/b34P1GBBkJI3DhMHhfiCArM4kmhKtcjCEcP46+uhM9qKMRyP8ZH/dPSkq8TIPFNJgX/wBV+wZAZEipVgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/_NkEAkgViWNc6quZH12aPW4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 7ab22c89-acf7-4168-b864-def68410fd37 X-Archives-Hash: 0343f621bf3c9576fd2c30b4f0862681 --Sig_/_NkEAkgViWNc6quZH12aPW4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:52 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Basically I plan to do: > - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the > root partition get's to small), > but it seems safer to let root be an own partition. Or are there any > different opinions here? I'm very interested in hearing experiences... I have a small root partition on RAID1 and everything else (except swap) in an LVM group, also on RAID. This avoids the need for a separate /boot. --=20 Neil Bothwick Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer' rather redundant? --Sig_/_NkEAkgViWNc6quZH12aPW4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj4d6YACgkQum4al0N1GQOr7QCffY3tigyd9SaqgBVaEe1dzgQb EJQAnRipIoY4UnYLnVsaVqyGxKgi6aFg =Pvz/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_NkEAkgViWNc6quZH12aPW4--