On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > G'day Alvin/All, > > | - why do you want raid??? > > I'm setting up a file/print server. does NOT justify raid ... but if you mean its a home server or mail server or webserver, you can use multimount solaris style NFS ( linux has a way to go ) otherwise, an offline redundant live backup works good to if yu cn handle a couple minutes downtime > > hda1 - /boot > > hda2 - / i'd make "/" a root-raid device.... and i'd scrap /boot, ... those are olden dayz when the kernel could read above 1024 to boot strap itself up... ( just be sure / is under 1024 cyl ...as opposed tothe whole disk ) > > hda3 - swap > > hde/g raid set - /var no point in making /var a raid device... > > hde/g raid set - /home good idea to make user data raid if you need a live 2nd copy but if / dies... you're dead ... therefore no value from /home as raid good thing about keeping the system as a standalone/regular linux install and "user data" as raid... - you can always build a new linux intall in 5 minutes ... :-) but you cant do that w/ user data that can be 10TB of data > You seem to have the hardware working, so the hard part is over. my real raid test.. ( if you're usng /dev/hda and /dev/hdc ) - unplug /dev/hda - see if it boots and works properly in degraded mode - restore it .. let it resync - unplug /dev/hdc - see if it boots and works properly in degraded mode - restore it .. let it resync - write a 4GB sized files.. several times ... compare each one individually to the master copy - replace /dev/hda with a brand new disk !! and it should all magically work -- if everything is done right ... you do NOT need to touch the keyboard to get it booting/running... it should all work by itself c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]