jdd wrote:
Hello,
I'm pretty new to raid, read the raid wiki but not sure to understand all. I have (at least for some time) to use already in stock consumer disks, but the server will not be stressed, only serves web pages and occasionally photo/video files. I build it myself because I will have fiber link at home at mid january.
I plan to use three disks: two as raid 1 mirror, and the third as spare. Is it better to have a three disks mirror? I don't get precisely how a spare is advertised to the raid.
A spare disk is added to the array, it is just marked as spare.
The three disks are very different (1Tb 2.5", 1.5Tb 3.5" and 2Tb 3.5") - of course I will use the same 1Tb space for raid on each disk
Two disks will be internal, the third will be on external esata dock
the server will have up to date rsync backups.
I have to boot on these disks.
I plan to make 4 GPT partitions:
* swap * UEFI * GRUB * linux
1) may I do two linux partitions for system and /home - data? Isn't that making the use of raid more difficult (two raids array), or may be it's in fact simpler?
That's a matter of taste. I have a number of external servers with 2 SATA drives in each. They have two partitions - swap and linux. Those are then RAID'ed to md0 and md1.
2) I have a disk replicator (Aukey dock), so I plan to partition one drive and replicate to the two others with the dock. Is it a good idea or is it overkill? (I can also partition by hand with yast)
I don't see what the replication adds to the game. Just use YaST to install on your RAID array(s). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.2°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org