Booting on RAID set failing
bscott at ntisys.com
bscott at ntisys.com
Wed Sep 18 17:04:09 EDT 2002
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 4:33pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Errr, what do you mean the "system" portions. Not /, /boot, /usr, /var?
The parts that are not exported as data. In this storage appliance
scenario, I would expect each node to have a single partition with a very
minimal set of operating files on it.
> The Data portions will be exported as raw partitions by NBD, and the AN
> will RAID5 the devices of multiple SNs together, then RAID1 the RAID5s in
> the RAIN config I spoke of earlier.
Wouldn't this
4 disks --> RAID 0 --> NBD --> AN --> RAID 0, 1, 5, or 0+1
be more flexible, and use available storage more efficiently, too?
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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