Jeff Garland spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> Well looks like I might be bailing on this plan after your comment below.
>
> >What I ended up doing was: three sata drives, two mirrored, one hotspare.
> >I
> >created two slices on each disk, done for the root slice, and one for the
> >LVM
> >slice. Then build the soft raid config. Then used LVM to further divide
> >up
> >the 2nd slide into my various file systems.
>
> Oh, for pete sake...that's an awful pain...and at least one more drive
> than I was planning to use.
>
Jeff -
I have the hotspare there because this box is in santa clara. I don't have
immediate physical access, so I needed to minimize pain in the event of a
failure. Also, the LVM stuff was because this was a server. I don't want /tmp
filling up the drive and DOS'ing the system. I tend to split up the file
system into muliple parts, and what not.
You probably don't need this on a desktop machine. My desktop runs one slice
for the whole setup, and its a soft mirror setup.
Sorry about the confusion, I was a bit tired and for some reason thought
describing the whole setup was a good thing.
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