I'm looking for advice on the best possible raid configuration
for my requirements and hardware availability.
I have 4 9 gig SCSI drives. The machine is basically going
to be a centralized fileserver for web servers which surround
it and mount /home via nfs.
These drives are only going to be used for /home.
I would love the ability to add drive space to the raid
partition at a future date.
Redundancy is more important then speed, although I'd
like to get the best of both worlds.
I've read the docs, I understand what's available, but
this decisions appears to be more "judgment" based then
technically based at this point.
I've installed and successfully administered raid level 0, 1,
but have no experience with raid level 5. I like the idea of
the autostart partition label mentioned in the RAID5.HOWTO.
Is this also available in raid 1.
My thoughts were somewhere between raid5 and a combination
of raid 1 and raid 0.
I want to "try" the 2.2 pre releases mainly due to the nfs
capabilities of the new kernels.
Thanks
-jeremy
