On 06/13/15 19:17, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:35:58 -0453
From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| if I configured my RAID5 as 1 X 5
| X 1 (rows X cols X spares), would I have my 4 active drives, 1 parity
| drive & 1 spare ?
Yes.
| I do have a spare 899.5 GiB partition (identical to
| the other 5) that I was going to use as /var, however I think my 16 GiB
| RAID1 root drive will be enough, so I could configure as asked, no ?
You could, but as a spare it isn't going to be very useful unless it
is on a different (physical) drive than the other 5 (otherwise, Murphy
guarantees that the drive that dies will be the one that also contains
the spare...)
But if it is a distinct drive, then doing that (and arranging to re-add
the spare after each reboot if you have auto-config on) might make
a lot of sense.
kre
That other partition *is* on a separate drive, I have 6 X 1 TB 2.5"
HDD's, all identically partitioned & sliced, so it would indeed be
separate .... Thanks :-).
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