[lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod

[fred.robinson at sipfusion.com]

Hugh, Dan,
Good info!  Thanks so much for your assistance!  I think I know what
I've gotta do.

Regards,
Fred Robinson

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod
> From: Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu>
> Date: Wed, May 09, 2007 6:19 am
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> 
> 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
> > 
> 
> Try this site for general overview: http://www.wlug.org.nz/RaidOnLinux
> 
> If you are interested in just adding data on RAID, then you can buy an 
> add-in card (beware the fakeraid cheapo cards) and attach your 
> non-system disks to it.  Usu. the real/good hardware cards will have a 
> configuration utility that can be accessed just after bios POST to set 
> up the disks and configure the RAID.  After that, it's a kernel module 
> to recognize the RAID as a single device, mkfs, add it to /etc/fstab and 
> mount it.
> 
> If you want to put the system disk on RAID, then it is probably easier 
> just to reload it.
> 
> Hugh
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