[Sussex] Raid install

[Paul Tansom]

Dave Chapman wrote:
> Are there any caveats for installing to a raid0 partition.
> I believe that I will need a /boot and swap on a non raid drive.
> 
> I,m not too bothered if the system crashes if a hard drive fails thats why I 
> have not mirrored the drives Just as long as my /home survives.
> So thats on /dev/hdb

I won't dive into issues that have already been covered with other
replies to this thread, but since I didn't see it mentioned specifically
I thought I would just add that I run systems quite happily with all
partitions including /boot and the swap running on RAID 1 (mirrored)
drives. All this partitioning and RAID setup can be done at install time
on the current Debian versions - and I assume other distributions too,
but I know Debian :) I'm running ext3 since I moved onto that from ext2
as a natural progression while I was still suffering from the view that
the other systems were a little to experimental to risk trying. I
believe that ReiserFS is probably worth a look now, but really haven't
had the time or need to play with it (not to mention spare machine) so I
can't speak for other file systems working like this - I would imagine
they should.

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