After installation you can:
: #1 - Add new hard drive (two for RAID5)
: #2 - Create failed disk RAID1 or RAID5
: #3 - Create file system on RAID1 or RAID5
: #4 - Boot from rescue disk (must have RAID kernel on it)
: #5 - Copy old non-RAID to new RAID using afio or cpio
: #6 - Reboot to new RAID (c
: Look at the Bonnies seek performance. It should rise.
: For single sequential reads, readbalancer doesn't help.
: Bonnie tests only single sequential reads.
:
: If you wan't to test with multiple io threads, try
: http://tiobench.sourceforge.net
Great, thanks, I'll give this a try!
: None offhand, but can you post your test configuration/parameters?
: Things like test size, relavent portions of /etc/raidtab, things
: like that. I know this should be a whole big list, but I can think
: of all of them right now. FYI, I don't do IDE RAID (or IDE at all),
: but it's pretty aw
: > Can/Should I apply the raid1readbalance-2.2.15-B2 patch after
: > applying mingo's raid-2.2.16-A0 patch?
:
: I don't see any reason not to apply it, although I haven't
: tried it with 2.2.16.
I have been out of the linux-raid world for a bit, but a
two-drive RAID1 installation yesterday ha
