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Subject: Re: Prepping to install: a different tangent
From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam () hiwaay ! net>
Date: 2015-06-14 13:44:48
Message-ID: 557D8A75.1060603 () hiwaay ! net
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On 06/13/15 19:17, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:35:58 -0453
> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
> Message-ID: <557C7697.3050906@hiwaay.net>
>
> | if I configured my RAID5 as 1 X 5
> | X 1 (rows X cols X spares), would I have my 4 active drives, 1 parity
> | drive & 1 spare ?
>
> Yes.
>
> | I do have a spare 899.5 GiB partition (identical to
> | the other 5) that I was going to use as /var, however I think my 16 GiB
> | RAID1 root drive will be enough, so I could configure as asked, no ?
>
> You could, but as a spare it isn't going to be very useful unless it
> is on a different (physical) drive than the other 5 (otherwise, Murphy
> guarantees that the drive that dies will be the one that also contains
> the spare...)
>
> But if it is a distinct drive, then doing that (and arranging to re-add
> the spare after each reboot if you have auto-config on) might make
> a lot of sense.
>
> kre
>
That other partition *is* on a separate drive, I have 6 X 1 TB 2.5"
HDD's, all identically partitioned & sliced, so it would indeed be
separate .... Thanks :-).
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William A. Mahaffey III
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