Insight on partitioning a LAMP Server design issue

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:20:26PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Stephen Goldman wrote:
> >     The device is a brand new Dell server with: 
> >     /dev/sda    raid one 160 G
> >     /dev/sdb    raid five 270G 
> ...
> >     There is a total of six drives :
> >         Raid one for the OS
> >         Raid five for the data & db
> 
> So really you're talking about /dev/md0 .. /dev/md4 for the first set 
> (given your proposed list of partitions), and /dev/md5 for the second. 

I don't think so. I think that the hardware RAID is taking
physical disks 0 and 1 and presenting them as sda, and physical
disks 2,3,4,5 and presenting them as sdb.

LVM may be a win for him, long term. I generally agree with the
rest of what you write.

-dsr-


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