[ILUG] Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server

[Hamilton, David]

I am about to build a linux media server at home, and am wondering what the best way of doing this is.
It has 6 x 1Tb Hard Drives, and I want most of this to be provided as one large, ideally RAID protected, partition.

Option 1:
Do I use the md driver to create one large 6 disk RAID-5 set and then partition that for boot, swap, root and then one big partition for the rest.
This would mean booting off a software RAID-5 set, but I get the feeling from Professor Google that this should be possible.
If you create a software RAID set using md, can you then fdisk that device as if it were a traditional disk?

Option 2:
Do I create a normal boot, root and swap on the first disk and then use LVM to create one big filesystem with the rest.

Am I correct in saying that LVM on linux doesn't support mirroring the way it does on HP-UX?

I am planning on running MediaTomb as a uPnP server, but if anyone knows of a better option, please feel free to share.

Thanks,
        David.
 
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