[lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod

[fred.robinson at sipfusion.com]

Steve,
Thanks for the reply!  Excellent info!  Ok, so my intention was to
install a PCI RAID card in the server, will this require me to load a
RAID driver/package on the O/S or is this kind of Hardware RAID
completely transparent to the running O/S?

Kind Regards,
Fred Robinson

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod
> From: steve at badcheese.com
> Date: Wed, May 09, 2007 8:42 am
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> 
> FYI: I just recently installed gentoo using RAID1 for /boot and RAID0
> for 
> / (wanted to see if the speed increase was really worth it - and
> so-far it 
> is!) and it went really well.  The only difference is that you have to 
> manually write grub data to both drives (setup (hd0,0), then setup 
> (hd1,0)).
> 
> I know that the Linux software raid can be a little flakey, but in my 
> experience, it's usable.  If I had some extra cash, I'd go for hardware 
> RAID over linux's software RAID, but it's good in a pinch.  :)
> 
> - Steve
> 
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Dan FErris wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 06:29:36 -0600
> > From: Dan FErris <dan at usrsbin.com>
> > Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing
> List"
> >     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> > To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> >     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> > Subject: Re: [lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod
> > 
> > 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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