[ale] Raid

[James P. Kinney III]

You don't want to have HD1 as parity. It defeats the purpose of RAID 5
data safety. If HD1 dies, it's _ALL_ gone.

If you are seriously looking at having to add more HD space later to a
RAID setup, look at using LVM to handle HD slices for adding space and
RAID on top to provide the data space itself.

LVM is some serious big iron stuff. Read lots!!

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 20:43, Greg wrote:
> I have a question on Linux software raid, if I get 3 HD's and set them up
> for RAID 5 - HD # 1 for parity and HD's 2 & 3 for storage and they are all
> 60 GB hard drives, can I add a fourth hard drive later ?  This would give me
> HD #1 for parity and HD's 2, 3, and 4 for storage.
> 
> TIA
> Greg Canter
> 
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