[SunHELP] Small RAID array setup

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Jul 15 02:50:57 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:57:26AM -0500, Tige D. Chastain wrote:
> I'm sure you've figured out by now that you cannot load Solaris 9
> on that architecture.

Haven't tried it with Solaris 9.  Why would it not work?  I see no
reason why it shouldn't, but maybe I'm missing something about Solaris
9.


> Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:07:40PM -0400, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> > > I would prefer security, capacity, and speed, in that order, for the RAID
> > > setup.
> > 
> > After some thought, I think I'd do this:  Set up a small boot partition
> > on the internal disk.  Install onto it, then establish a multi-way
> > mirror across the remaining disks.  RAID5 the remaining space on all
> > five disks.

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