Re: [PLUG] organizing files on software Raid (SCSI)

[Wayne Dawson <jongalt@pinn.net>]

At 12:07 PM 2/26/03 -0500, you wrote:
> You can boot from a software RAID1 mirror, not a software RAID0 or 5. The
> only partition that must be RAID1 is /boot, others including root can be on
> RAID5 or 0. I use Redhat 8 as well and it works great in this configuration,
> though I am not sure when I would use a RADI0 partition -- maybe for /tmp...

Excellent.  This is our second most critical machine (email server), so we 
are setting it up for software RAID1.  The database server will use 
hardware RAID5.

Thanks,
Wayne

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