This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
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>> > mdadm is the sane way to build software raid.
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>> Thanks, checking out mdadm now. Would you take the same route when moving
>> from no-RAID to RAID with it, or does it have a tricky do-it-all thing?
>
>(Having checked it out, yeah, same met
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> Any additional pointers, reassurance ;) etc appreciated.
Looks fine to me. I see that my chunksize is bigger than yours, FWIW:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Using raid a
G'day Jeff (and all)
I'm going to use raidtools, rather than mdadm (not because its the best,
but because there is more documentation to ease my learning curve).
Just wanting to check my /etc/raidtab before starting the array. (I'm
nervous, and really don't want to loose data or incur extra dow
> > mdadm is the sane way to build software raid.
>
> Thanks, checking out mdadm now. Would you take the same route when moving
> from no-RAID to RAID with it, or does it have a tricky do-it-all thing?
(Having checked it out, yeah, same method. mdadm is more automatable, but
replaces a nice con
> If you can help it, don't use raidtools, use mdadm. Red Hat and Debian
> package it, and as Mandrake is so cookery cool I'd bet they've got it too.
>
> mdadm is the sane way to build software raid.
Thanks, checking out mdadm now. Would you take the same route when moving
from no-RAID to RAID
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> * Set up your raidtab normally, for whichever level you care about (in
>this case, 1)
If you can help it, don't use raidtools, use mdadm. Red Hat and Debian
package it, and as Mandrake is so cookery cool I'd bet they've got it too.
mdadm is t
> This is what I'm considering doing:
>
> * Adding an extra HD to the machine on the first IDE, and copy the
> contents of the current root filesystem onto it.
> * Make the extra HD into the root filesystem using LILO.
> * Make the two SCSI HDs into the raid device.
> * Copy the root filesystem
G'day all...
One of our servers here has two identical SCSI HDs in it. Only one is
currently used, and I want to combine the two using software raid
(RAID-1), using them as the root filesystem.
Has anyone done this under Mandrake 8.2
This is what I'm considering doing:
* Adding an extra HD to
