[lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod

[Dan FErris]

Unfortunatly, unlike Solaris and BSD, the Linux software RAID leaves 
much to be desired.  What you describe can be done, but it's a long 
involved process.  If you want to try it, I suggest reading the Linux 
RAID Howto (you can google for it).  The HOWTO gives the procedure.

The software RAID is a set of kernel drivers and the mdadm utility.  It 
should come with the OS.


fred.robinson at sipfusion.com wrote:
> I installed Fedora 6 Zod on a standard IDE drive.  During the
> installation I used the default Linux partitioning and didn't install
> RAID.  I've determined that I need RAID support for disk mirroring.  Do
> I need to re-install Fedora and setup the installation as RAID or can I
> add a RAID card and install a package for RAID support on the existing
> installation?  Of course I'm hoping I can add RAID after the fact and
> that do not have re-install, if this be the case what is the name of
> the package to install?  Can the package be installed with 'yum'?
>
> Pardon my ignorance, RAID is new territory for me and I'm frankly
> uninformed about how it works and I've had no success on the various
> Linux/Fedora support boards finding answers.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Fred Robinson
>
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