Re: root (/) on raid 5 /boot on CF card

2012-07-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/07/12 12:01 AM, Bob wrote: On 07/25/2012 11:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/12 09:50 PM, Bob wrote: Hi I'm trying to upgrade my personal web server & I have a 4 port SATA2 PCI card with the 4 Hard Drives connected, I'm putting a 1GB swap partition at the front of each of the 4 500GB driv

Re: root (/) on raid 5 /boot on CF card

2012-07-24 Thread Bob
On 07/25/2012 11:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/12 09:50 PM, Bob wrote: Hi I'm trying to upgrade my personal web server & I have a 4 port SATA2 PCI card with the 4 Hard Drives connected, I'm putting a 1GB swap partition at the front of each of the 4 500GB drives and the rest is / in an mdadm s

Re: root (/) on raid 5 /boot on CF card

2012-07-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/12 09:50 PM, Bob wrote: Hi I'm trying to upgrade my personal web server & I have a 4 port SATA2 PCI card with the 4 Hard Drives connected, I'm putting a 1GB swap partition at the front of each of the 4 500GB drives and the rest is / in an mdadm software RAID5 configuration. I know yo

root (/) on raid 5 /boot on CF card

2012-07-24 Thread Bob
Hi I'm trying to upgrade my personal web server & I have a 4 port SATA2 PCI card with the 4 Hard Drives connected, I'm putting a 1GB swap partition at the front of each of the 4 500GB drives and the rest is / in an mdadm software RAID5 configuration. I know you cant boot a RAID5 system directl