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On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:08 -0600, J. Marsden DeLapp wrote:
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Andres Paglayan wrote:
> now I just ordered the hardware, since the chassis supports 8 disks, and
> the mobo 6,
> so I purchased 8 disks just to have two identical spares sitting there
> unplugged.
You should plug in the spares somewhere and run them for at least 24 hours to make sure they have a good burn-in and
identify any that would fail from infant mortality.
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clever, didn't think of it
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> Since I don't see myself changing or adding disks during the life of the
> server,
> I will not do LVM on top.
I would use LVM. I have learned that plans change and always using LVM makes life easier when the unexpected change happens.
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the other unspoken truth about avoiding LVM is my lack of experience on building complex disk partitions,<BR>
specially dealing with the boot partition on these scenarios,<BR>
I am foreseeing a lot of reading here<BR>
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