Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

[Jake Anderson <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nigel Allen wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm 
> looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
>
> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly 
> busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve:
>
> 1) Speed
> 2) Reliability
> 3) Ease of maintenance.
>
> Anyone care to take a punt at a layout?
>
> TIA
>
> Nigel.
I wouldn't bother with LVM.
Personally I'd set up a 3 disk raid 5 and just partition onto it 
directly, if you want more room (not likley with 1Tb drives) you can 
grow the raid 5 array rather than needing to add on another array and 
join it onto the end.