I have 4 drives. I would like complete fault tolerance if a drive fails. Is there a simple tutorial online that can show me how to do this in debian ?? On the first set of drives - I have created 2 raid partitions on each drive - 1 for the root / filesystem (996gb) and the other for swap (4gb) - I have 4gb of ram in the server.
I managed to setup the / and the swap system but i think i am doing something wrong with swap - when i do: root@rider:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[1] 976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md1 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] 4104180 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 972654456 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> It keeps showing up as read-only. Further - I tried to use the 2 other drives as mirroring each other - md2 - but it took a long time to mirror drives. How can i do this after the system is setup ??? How can I create a filesystem on them??? How do I put MBRs on both drives that have the root filesytem (.). thanks mjh On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Joey L <mjh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am trying to build a system that will give me as much tolerance as > > possible. > > I have (4) 1 Terabyte drives. > > I have created 2 mirrored raid drives md0 and md1. > > md0 has the / and boot partition on it. > > and md1 has the data on lvm. > > On /dev/sda I also have my swap partition on it. > > I have tried to test what would happen if i loose my first drive in the > root > > partition /. > > I get a blinking cursor - something is preventing the mirrored drive > from > > kicking in and booting. > > Have you installed grub the MBRs of sda and sdb? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/banlktirtc-ktd2wrkgc1_fa5jcrcsq...@mail.gmail.com > >