On 26/03/2010 15:06, John Hendrikx wrote:

Bill Davidsen wrote:

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I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I 
share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because 
he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather 
than a partitioned array.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1368

I do that too (multiple arrays using partitions).  My reason for that is 
to make future upgrades less painful as it is possible to just copy and 
drop one array at a time.

I do that too, but my reason is that the arrays are different types. For 
example, first partitions make RAID-1 for /boot, second partitions 
RAID-1 or RAID-10 swap, third partitions RAID-5 or RAID-6 filesystem (or 
several over LVM).

Cheers,

John.