[NBLUG/talk] RAID1 and partitions

[gandalf at sonic.net]

I'm not really a big fan of raid. I think your much better off having a 
second drive and doing a daily rsync. Raid drives typically fail within 
the same timeframe, also it is not uncommon for a drive to fail in a 
manner that it corrupts the other drive. Regular backups are much more 
powerful.

There I said it. Everyone chime in and tell me I'm an idiot. :-)


On 2015-05-01 10:23, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
> Does anybody have any tips for setting up a RAID1 array on Ubuntu?
> 
> I've looked at this:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/advanced-installation.html
> 
> It suggests setting up
> 
> md0 as a swap partition and
> md1 as an ext4 / partition which is also bootable.
> 
> My experience with Centos is to do:
> 
> md0: /boot with ext2
> 
> md1: as an LVM volume creating partitions:
> 
> swap
> and / as ext4
> 
> My goal is reliability and to be able to boot into either volume when
> the other is degraded.  Is there any standard way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Omar
> 
> 
> 
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