I bought a supermicro 6013p-t for the 4 sata raid hard drives support. Unfortunately, it doesn't really have raid at all. So I'm forced to use software raid. What I'd like to use is fedora core 2 with an innodb filesystem on a software raid partition according to these instructions:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/InnoDB_Raw_Devices.html Has anybody done this? I'm not a linux expert and so I'm not sure exactly how to set this up. When I try to setup software raid in linux, I'm forced to pick a filesystem and its mount point as part of the process of creating a software raid partition. So this is the part that's stumping me. How do I create a software raid raw device only to use as an innodb filesystem? Is this possible? Or maybe this can't be done without hardware raid and I need to buy a new server? GNU's Parted software (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/) has this to say regarding features, "Supported disk labels: raw access (useful for RAID and LVM), ms-dos, etc." But I've been unable to create a raw software raid device with that as well. Scott Mueller AccelerateBiz Managed Hosting http://www.acceleratebiz.com <http://www.acceleratebiz.com/> Phone: (800) 360-7360 Fax: (270) 778-3081
