Upon further experimentation I found that if you run diskutil from the
CLI you can partition a RAID set. At the surface level this seems
like an ideal solution. We would be working with a RAID 0 set and
have our 2 partitions for a system drive and a scratch drive. I am
willing to bet that this isn’t a supported configuration. Has anyone
tried this and had success? Am I setting myself up for failure with
this config? I don’t see any reason why a RAID set can’t be
partitioned, but because it is not supported in the GUI I am a little
hesitant of doing it. Any suggestions or comments would be
appreciated.
Don't do it! Currently partitioning RAIDs is not supported by Apple's
software. Your ability to do it will be very hit and miss, you will
loose support options from Apple, and most/all of your drive utilities
will loose the ability to work on the drive.
It was said at MacWorld in the Tiger Server session that 10.4 is
bringing a big upgrade to AppleRAID and that one of the features it is
bringing is RAID set partitioning.
Josh
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Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
http://www.afp548.com
Breaking my server to save yours.
