[lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod

[steve at badcheese.com]

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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