On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Kevin K <kevi...@fidnet.com> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> At Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:33:50 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> >> wrote: > > >> Many of the SATA (so-called) hardware raid controllers are not really >> hardware raid controllers, they are 'fakeraid' and requires lots of >> software RAID logic. You are generally *better off* to *disable* the >> motherboard RAID controller and use native Linux software RAID. > > The only caveat I can think of is if you wanted to BOOT off of the raid > configuration. The BIOS wouldn't understand the Linux RAID implementation. > > But for RAID 1, especially, you probably want a minimum of 3 drives. A boot > drive with Linux, and the other 2 RAIDed together for speed. That way, the > logic to handle the failure of one of the drives isn't on the drive that may > have failed. > > Of course, if it is the Linux drive that failed, you replace that (from > backup?) and your data should all still be available. > > > > _______________________________________________
You can install Linux on software RAID1 :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
