there's many different schools of thought on this, and i'm sure others
will have other ideas, but here's what i do:
- buy an ide/sata -> compact flash adapter
- buy a 1gb compact flash card, put it in the adapter, connect up to
motherboard as disk0 (i.e. primary master on ide, sata0 on sata)
- add ide/sata/scsi disks as needed for main filesystem & swap
- partition as follows:
- /boot goes onto the compact flash card, set as the booting device
in the bios
- create a slice of swap on each of the disks (say 500MB - 1GB each)
at the start of the disk
- fill the rest of the disc with a software raid partition
- repeat for additional disks
- build desired raid level MD device on the partitions
- put a single LVM volume on top of that (for future expansion)
d.
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