Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-23 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, Thanks nate and Alvin for your helpful advice. On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:24:43PM -0700, nate wrote: > depends on the setup. I usually do this where possible. I haven't > read the HOWTO but it's not the easiest thing to do. I've done it on > both SCSI and IDE systems. It involved(for me)

Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread nate
Lucas Barbuto said: > Hi List, > 1) Question: Is it important to have my boot partition (also my root > partition, I don't have a seperate /boot) as part of an array? If I want > this array for redundancy, I would have thought this was > essential, but it looks like quite a difficult process

Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas my raid tests... - pull the cable to the disk ... it should still boot and keep merrily working in degraded mode add a new file or two - put the cables back in and see if it resyncs the new file still not in the other "simulated dead disk"

Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, I'm looking at installing Software RAID on two new servers at work (one web and one db server). I'm really only interested in RAID-1 for it's redundancy, I'm not particularily concerned about performance. I've gone through the Software RAID HOWTO and it seemed fairly straight forward, h