[CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Dean Maluski
I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Monday I'm rebuilding a Linux server at work. Instead of purchasing 3 drives for this system I purchased 4 with intent to create a hot spare. Here is my usual setup which I'll do again but with a hot spare for each partion. Create

Re: [CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really should use anything but RAID 0 for swap. If you need to swap and that device is dead then your system

Re: [CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Dean Maluski
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:11 -0800, nate wrote: Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really should use anything but RAID 0 for swap. If you