Re: [PLUG] RAID Linux or RAID BIOS?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> From: Casey Bralla<MailList@nerdworld.org>
> To: PLUG Philadelphia Linux Users Group<plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
>
> I'm going to be rebuilding my server and want to add simple RAID 1 mirroring.
> My motherboard BIOS can do this for me, or I can set up Linux to do it.
>
> I'v never done a RAID setup before, so I'm kind of stumbling in the dark.
> (I'm going to test setting up RAID in a VirtualBox machine to make sure I can
> at least get it operating.)
>
> Anybody have a suggestion on how to set up RAID, or know of a good reference?

+1 for Linux software RAID for the same reasons as Bhaskar & Rich.

Also, we've talked about this in the list before, especially:

http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2008-04/msg00315.html
	RAID @ Home (was "Saving data from a precarious drive")
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2008-05/msg00190.html
	Mirrored drives with LVM
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2011-06/msg00101.html
	Hot-swapping Linux RAID1 (was Re: Computer case)

But there are others.

Later,
JP
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