--- "Jasmeet S. Virdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanx for the response guys .. > I have experience of RAID on windows boxes, but that was a different > talk altogether. > Right now I have a couple of partitions on my linux box and have > narrowed down to mirroring/RAID1 using software, cud u suggest what > all > should I put on RAID. > I have > /boot separate partition > /data separate partition > /app separate partition > Rest all under / partition > /data partion is something like the application data. And /app is the > installed application. > > I reckon /boot, /app and my /data partitions would be the likely > candidates. Do u think / partition should also be mirrored ?? > > ALSO if I go in for HARDWARE RAID, could you gimme an idea as to what > all RAID CONTROLLERS work with Linux ??
Assuming the uptime of the server is critical why would you not want to have the whole setup on RAID ? You donot need to have a /boot partition unless you are using a very old motherboard. A typical MySQL specific RAID setup is given below : /dev/ida/c0d0p1 2.0G 946M 967M 50% / none 1008M 0 1008M 0% /dev/shm /dev/ida/c0d0p6 1008M 17M 939M 2% /tmp /dev/ida/c0d0p7 26G 13G 12G 50% /var/lib/mysql /dev/ida/c0d0p2 2.0G 40M 1.8G 3% /var/log For me all data sits in /var/lib/mysql all applications sit in / what I definitely want is that no temporary files or log should grow so big that it renders my server unusuable. Which is why /tmp and /var/log are separate partitions. Note the setup shown above is a Hardware RAID5 setup but the partition structure is more important than RAID level being used. To answer your other query this is a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev 02) RAID card. Mithun __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
