Re: Prepping to install

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 06/09/15 09:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 06/09/15 08:56, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 08:50:12AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > > Thanks for the reply. My RAID1 raid[1,2] devices are defined from 16 
> > > GiB
> > > partitions of the underlying HDD's, 2 each per raid device. They are 
> > > not
> > > intended to be subdivided, AFAIK. Therefore, I'm guessing
> > > /dev/raid[1,2]a, right :-) ?
> > Not subdivided == use the raw partition, so probably /dev/raid[1,2]d
> >
> > Martin
>
> Gads, this pilot's all over the sky :-/ ....
>
> Would the eventually/hopefully created RAID10 device be 
> autoconfigurable during boot ? TIA & thanks again.

Well, a more careful re-read of the raidctl online man page informs me 
that a RAID10 is in fact *not* autoconfigurable, so I switched to a 
4-device (4 X 16 GiB partitions that I was going to make into a RAID10) 
RAID0 for /usr. I also redid the parameters of my RAID5 configuration, 
which I had chosen poorly/invalidly before, & it's initializing its 
parity for about the next 5 hours. I just post this for anyone who might 
follow the thread in the future. I'll be off to disklabel-ing the 3 
RAID's tomorrow & (hopefully) installing ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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