On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:00:10 +1000, yudi v wrote:
>> I'd go for hardware RAID as long as there is a true and real hardware
>> RAID controller behind with a battery backup et al (in brief, a *good*
>> RAID controller, not the motherboard's one which are usually nothing
>> but fakeraid and a pile of
>
> Might be better to put LUKS on top of LVM instead of vice versa? Not sure.
>
>
By having LVM over LUKS, I will only have one container to unlock and from
what I understand Debian cannot unlock several LUKS containers at start-up
unlike Fedora.
My laptop currently has LVM over LUKS and works
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 17:00, yudi v wrote:
>
>> I'd go for hardware RAID as long as there is a true and real hardware
>> RAID controller behind with a battery backup et al (in brief, a *good*
>> RAID controller, not the motherboard's one which are usually nothing but
>> fakeraid and a pile of un
> I'd go for hardware RAID as long as there is a true and real hardware
> RAID controller behind with a battery backup et al (in brief, a *good*
> RAID controller, not the motherboard's one which are usually nothing but
> fakeraid and a pile of unforeseen problems).
>
> Otherwise I would use softwa
yudi v wrote:
> > You would need a second compatible hardware raid controller to use
> > in order to extract the data from the drives. The hardware raid
> > controllers I have used have not allowed me to access the data
> > without a compatible raid controller.
>
> If it's in RAID 1, I was under
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:11:32 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> Will be installing a new system and would like to have the following
> set-up:
>
> RAID 1 > LUKS > LVM
>
> Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how
> reliable it will be) or use software RAID?
I'd go for hardware RAID
> You would need
> a second compatible hardware raid controller to use in order to
> extract the data from the drives. The hardware raid controllers I
> have used have not allowed me to access the data without a compatible
> raid controller.
If it's in RAID 1, I was under the impression that I w
yudi v wrote:
> Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how reliable
> it will be) or use software RAID?
The problem with the hardware raid on the motherboard is what do you
do if the motherboard fails? You will at that time have good data on
your disks but probably no way t
Will be installing a new system and would like to have the following set-up:
RAID 1 > LUKS > LVM
Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how reliable
it will be) or use software RAID?
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Kind regards,
Yudi
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