You're in luck Jason. I've just finished writing a howto (literally about a day ago and I haven't yet proofed it).
It's geared for a Debian installation, but where I write things like apt-get install raidtools2, grab the appropriate rpm and issue and rpm -ivh The way raid1 works though, is that you don't have a failover, per se. You have to identitical disks that are written to simultaneously. If one fails, then you only have an array with one disk left. You then substitute the broken disk with a new one. Recreate the partitions and add it to the array and you're back to full redundancy. Do get in touch if you have any questions. http://www.robertgraves.org/linux/raid1_HOWTO.html Ian ------------ Dr Ian Firla Robert Graves Trust | "A partial count of the software available St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565 | would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jason Dale wrote: > Hi : > > Has anyone managed to successfully configure software RAID-1 on two > identical > IDE disks ? Here is what I need : > > 1) A method for creating RAID-1 during installation that is filesystem > independant. In > otherwords , these steps will 'mirror' an entire disk onto the other > disk while your > system is being installed as well as while it is being used foreveryday > work , irrespective > of how you have set up your Linux filesystems on that disk. > > 2) How do I create a disk 'failover' mechanism so that if during system > operation the 'primary' disk > fails , the system will automatically switch to the second disk , and > once the 'primary' disk has been > replaced or repaired , the system is intelligent enough to know that the > newer data is on the backup > disk , and will use this backup disk to synch the data across all of the > raid devices ? > > Regards , Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
