Hardware RAID Card

[aidanjt]

I like this idea rather than using another drive or CF card... But doesn't Ubuntu take more than 100mb? Well even if its 1GB on each disk, that's no big deal...

/boot only needs about 10mb at install, people recommend 100mb (which is kinda overkill) to make room for new kernels during security updates and such.

[SiM]

/boot only needs about 10mb at install, people recommend 100mb (which is kinda overkill) to make room for new kernels during security updates and such.

Ohhh, so the OS can be installed on the array... its just the \boot that cannot be on the array... I don't really know much about Linux, as you can see...

[directhex]

Thanks everyone... I will have to post another thread once I have the hard drives and a case for help with setup


I like this idea rather than using another drive or CF card... But doesn't Ubuntu take more than 100mb? Well even if its 1GB on each disk, that's no big deal...

/boot contains the kernel images, not the whole system. even then, it's not the ENTIRE kernel images, just the bits needed in order to boot (e.g. disk controllers yes, sound cards no). for example, with 2 kernels installed,
directhex@mortos:~$ du -hs /boot/
41M /boot/

[aidanjt]

Ohhh, so the OS can be installed on the array... its just the \boot that cannot be on the array...

Exactly, all the userspace bits that make the kernel tick can be in RAID, just kernel/initrd needs a simple /boot partition

I don't really know much about Linux, as you can see...

Heh, I was even more clueless 6 or 7 years ago when I got started.

When you get everything built. Start another thread on the OS forum and hex, peterb and I can help you out with installation (raid installs are a bit trickier than normal installs, as you may have guessed)