[Sussex] Install on a raid drive

[Steve Williams]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 19:28, David Chapman wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 19:46, Steve Williams wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > Nice kit to have! However, you don't specifiy the performance of the
> > drives and what you want to achieve with your multitude of RAID arrays.
>
> The raid card is a Mylex Acceleraid 200 which is a wide ultra2 LVD.
> Supports raid levels 0 1 3 5 0+1 10 30 50 and JBOD
>
> The computer is just my home machine which needs to have Win 2K and SUSE on
> it.
> Win 2K is just to keep the wife happy and for some software that I use with
> my Pinnacle DC10 video cutting card.
>
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David,

Two schemes spring to mind depending on whether you want performance or 
redundancy. If you're doing video editing then I supect you'll want 
performance.

1. Setup 2 of the 18Gb disks as a boot Mirror set (RAID 1). Make partitions on 
this for /boot, / and NTFS/Win2K system on top of any diagnostic or other 
housekeeping partitions you might want (a 128Mb fat 16 partition for Norton 
Ghost for example). I suggest up to 512Mb for /boot, 4Gb or so for Win2k 
System, the remainder for / for SuSE which needs up to 12Gb for a full 
install.

2. Setup another 2 18Gb disks as a RAID 1 Mirror. On this make a swap 
partition, a partition for /usr, an NTFS partition for Win2k programs and 
data. You could put your Win2k swap file on this partition.

3. Setup the 2 36Gb discs as a RAID 0 stripe set. If you are not too fussed 
about security you could format this as one VFAT/FAT32 partition so as to be 
accessible to Win2k and Linux. Otherwise, partition to suit your needs.

Under SuSE you could use LVM to manage the partitions as an alternative to 
fixed partitions.

This is just a suggestion, and I am sure others in the LUG will have their own 
suggestions.

Have fun.

Steve.