Our
InternetServer has two SCSI hard drives. They are both roughly 18 gigs, but are not the same model or speed. (Details coming soon.)
Mirroring
I (
BenScott) think we should mirror the two disks (RAID level 1). There is no service contract or tech support, physical access is limited, and we have limited manpower and no budget. A disk failure could knock us offline for weeks. At the same time, our current disk usage is small.
While I always prefer hardware RAID for the boot drive, the server does not have a controller, and we have no money to buy one. So, that means software RAID, which, as far as I know, does work pretty well on Linux. However I haven't done one of these in a long time, and never with GRUB. Do others have recent experience?
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BenScott - 10 Feb 2006
LVM
I'm learning towards using LVM to create containers for each partition. That gives us the flexibility to re-organize our partitions and such later on. Given that our plans for the future are very much up in the air, that is a real benefit. Anyone have any objections or suggestions with LVM? --
BenScott - 10 Feb 2006
Partition and directory layout
This topic tends to invite holy wars. That's usually a sign that the topic lacks objective, one-size-fits-all criteria. Please keep that in mind as we all put forth our preferences and opinions. --
BenScott - 10 Feb 2006