[Asterisk-Users] Re: linux soft raid (was: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?)

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:25:02AM +0800, Craig Guy wrote:
> Are you using raid for performance or redundancy?  Software raid is 
> nice except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot 
> partition on it. I guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or 
> something.

On our raid1 machines the entire root partition / is raid1. On raid5 
setups we have a small raid1 /boot which is mounted on raid5 root /

So in any case you have redundancy as you always boot on raid1.

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