How to create a terabyte storage array?

Wed Nov 30 17:03:46 UTC 2005

Soo-Hyun Choi schrieb:

>>When you install your system, I do not think you can put your root
>>filesystem on a RAID-5 unit, so you can do one out of two things. Get
>>a sixth disc, 20-40GB is more than adequate, install the OS on that,
>>create your RAID-5 array on the five big discs. Alternatively, create
>>a small (512MB - 2.0GB) partition on each of the five discs and make a
>>five-way mirror to use as a root filesystem.
>>All other filesystems you can have on the RAID-5 device.
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Hi all,

i believe its ok to put a 2 gig /boot partition on ONE of the disks.. 
Linux Software Raid can handle different media sizes nicely

cheers, Martin