[mythtv-users] Reassemble RAID with mdadm

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:13 AM, MarcT <myrdhn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My next upgrade I may do what one of the other posters said. Put an OS
>> mirror on all drives.
>> This way I could run 6 1-2 TB drives in the system as storage in RAID 6
>> with
>> the OS partition mirrored on the same drives across all 6 disks.
>
> Do you really need 6 copies of the OS? Why not take the 6 OS partitions and
> make a raid10 with 2 or 3 copies? You'd get more capacity and higher
> performance.
>

For my reply I meant boot not the OS. I use a separate raid 5 or 6 for
the OS with the raid 1 for the 256MB boot.

John