Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Залетнев Дмитрий wrote:
I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll
connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and
install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux?
Sure it is. The only issue you may run into is that the partition
containing /boot can't be on software RAID, grub & lilo don't know how
Not true. We ship units with SW /boot and / all the time, running
RHEL5.x. Grub (late model) knows how to handle this, though lilo might
not. The issue is, for Redhat folks, you *have* to use their kernels,
which have special dmraid magic, rather than md raid magic. The latter
works ... *much better* than the former, but you have to upgrade (read
as rip out) nash and several others to get the unit to boot other than
baseline kernels.
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