Xserve G4 RAID Config

[cH4os]

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>> Is it possible to set the drives in a "software RAID 10" via  
>> software  RAID (2 striping RAIDs which are mirrored, to get one  
>> big drive) and  boot YDL from this RAID? Or is it better/possible  
>> to boot from a  "standard" drive and use the others in a RAID 5?
>
> I found that creating a bootable drive from software RAID was so  
> difficult that it is not practical to boot from a software RAID  
> array. Perhaps you can mount your boot disk on a single drive and  
> use RAID 5 for the the additional three drives. You'll still get  
> fast performance and similar space out of three disks using RAID 5  
> that you would with four disks at RAID 10.
>

I agree, I use, 1 boot partition (first), then the RAID partition,  
then a Swap Partition (last)

Then burn a CD with the Boot partition, as redundancy...