soft raid under linux (red hat 9) - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Cocktopus · 05-20-2003, 12:44 AM

ive been able to get ata harware raid configurations working on hpt controllers, but i've had it with promise. maybe i'll give 3ware a try, but in the meantime, i was thinking about giving soft raid a try (especially after reading somewhere that hardware ata raid was more like a bios assisted soft raid).

i want to set up mirrored drives (raid 1) so i know /boot and / should be fine, but i know you can't/shouldn't raid the /swap so i guess have the kernel distribute the swap between drives.

is anyone running softraid that can offer any advice/suggestions/links (the how-to is a little weak)? if this works well, i'll eventually pursue converting a system to softraid

yotta · 05-20-2003, 03:38 AM

Did you look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html?

Cocktopus · 05-20-2003, 05:42 PM

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Originally posted by yotta
Did you look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html?

i have...curious about what people using soft raid think about it. still a little leary of the "soft" stigma.

yotta · 05-21-2003, 12:06 PM

I can eat up CPU power if it needs to rebuild the array. I used RAID5 for a while, worked fine.

05-20-2003, 12:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cocktopus Insane	soft raid under linux (red hat 9) ive been able to get ata harware raid configurations working on hpt controllers, but i've had it with promise. maybe i'll give 3ware a try, but in the meantime, i was thinking about giving soft raid a try (especially after reading somewhere that hardware ata raid was more like a bios assisted soft raid). i want to set up mirrored drives (raid 1) so i know /boot and / should be fine, but i know you can't/shouldn't raid the /swap so i guess have the kernel distribute the swap between drives. is anyone running softraid that can offer any advice/suggestions/links (the how-to is a little weak)? if this works well, i'll eventually pursue converting a system to softraid

05-20-2003, 03:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
yotta Irresponsible	Did you look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html? __________________ I am Jack's signature.

05-21-2003, 12:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
yotta Irresponsible	I can eat up CPU power if it needs to rebuild the array. I used RAID5 for a while, worked fine. __________________ I am Jack's signature.