RAID for pests or bugs

[ebenoit at hopevale.com]

Whoa, sorry about that realized I kept configuring the partitions at RAID level
1  using RAID 0 now.

thanks



Quoting ebenoit at hopevale.com:

> Alright, I like to experiment, so I decided to try a RAID configuration for a
> G4
> power mac (soon to be) file server.
> 
> I have two SCSI drives:
> sda has the potential of 38GB
> sdb has the potential of 70GB
> 
> my dream configuration would be this:
> 
> apple_bootstrap 50mb for sda1
> apple_bootstrap 50mb for sdb1
> / "root"         2GB for sda2
> swap           800mb for sda3
> /usr             2GB for sda4
> /var             2GB for sda5
> /home           30GB for sda6
> /home           69GB for sdb2
> 
> When adding these sizes to a RAID configuration I create:
> sda1 = md0 =  50mb            apple_bootstrap
> sdb1 = md1 =  50mb            apple_bootstrap
> sda2 = md2 =   2GB            / "root"
> sda3 = md3 = 800mb            swap
> sda4 = md4 =   2GB            /usrsda5 = md5 =   2GB            /var
> 
> sda6 = md6 =  30GB            /home
> sdb2 = md6 =  69GB            /home
> 
> I believe that there is something very wrong with the way I am doing this,
> because the /home directory still only shows up as 30GB. I was hoping I
> could
> make the /home directory close to 100GB of space. Should I make the larger
> SCSI
> hard drive 0: meaning sda = 70BG and sdb = 38GB ...I wouldn't think it would
> matter, but thats why I ask.
> 
> Any shedding of really bright light ...maybe blinding light would be most
> welcome.
> 
> 
> Thank you much
> 
> PS
> I chose not to split the users home directories up, because our users are
> sporadic with the amount of space they utilize ...alot of scale tipping
> would
> occur.
> 
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