I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37 GB
2nd - 4th HD partition for Raid volume 37 GB. A few questions have came up: When I replace a hard drive (simulated crash) in RAID 5 do I have to do any configuration to make it work? When I tested this it appeared to just take off, however I could not even find a log entry that it had actually done anything. If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? I pulled it out, put in a brand new drive, inserted my boot floppy, and of course had no kernel to boot. Is there a way to set it up so that I could have a back up boot sector on the other hard drives? On a regular hardware raid system I would have set up raid 1 for my boot disks and raid 5 for my data disks. Since I am limited to just 4 hard drives I obviously can't do that here. Even if I were to leave the first drive out of the raid mix, the question still stands, how do I recover if that hard drive fails? -- Disclaimer: This communication represents the official view of the voices in my head and should not be confused with whatever voices you are hearing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
