On Monday 29 October 2001 11:45 pm, Pawelczyk, Heiko wrote:
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Using Suse 7.3, I'm planning a raid (5) server instalation and was planing to use reiserfs partitions on three drives connected each to a different ide controller. Any problems with this?
No if all of them are master without a slave device on the same cable.
Yes, one disk per controller channel was what I was planning. this requires an additional controller card which hopefully will be supported by Suse. We shall see.
Is reiserfs a suitable partition for raid? any other suggestions?
Reiserfs is fine, but you have first to partition the disks, then you define the raid-array and don´t format it, if you plan to use LVM! At this point you leave it as ext2. With LVM you can partition the raid-array. Use yast2 for installation. Yast1 can´t configure raid.
I'm running Reiserfs on one of my machines and am quite happy with it, so I understand the basics, but I don't understand your comments about LVM. I'm expecting to use a seperate physical disk for each element of the array, rather than chopping up a single disk into volumes. So I don't understand where LVM comes into it? -- __________________________________________ J.Andersen