On Monday 09 January 2006 19:25, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >> mdadm RAID 0 with 3 drives, JFS (my favorite) or XFS file system. > >> > >> Some may disagree, but in such a simple setup, I don't see any reason to > >> add lvm on top of this RAID array, but others may prefer it. > >> > >> Also note, I don't believe you can boot off of a md RAID 0 drive, so > >> you'll need another driver (or network boot) for your boot partition. > > > >Ok, thats what I thought. do I have to use any special mdadm settings in > > order to do RAID0 and have it stripe across the drives? > > Nothing special. Just a /etc/raidtab like so: > > # /var/video (RAID 0) > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 0 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 32 > persistent-superblock 1 > device /dev/hda1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/hdc1 > raid-disk 1 > > >Is it possible to add another drive to the RAID0 later to increase the > > speed later? I have the feeling the 2 will be enough for now, but... > > I don't know. I think this is where lvm come in handy, but I've never done > it. But, since your data isn't important, you shouldn't have to worry about > losing it and creating a new array if something goes wrong
great, thanks for the info. Hopefully the drives get here tomorrow and I'll be up and running. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users