On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Allan Metts wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm setting up Fedora in a server with five identical SCSI disks and a > hardware RAID controller. I want reliability AND performance, so I > understand my options here are either RAID5 or RAID 0/1 (combination of > striping and mirroring). > > Any advice on how I should set this box up? I know RAID 5 would give me > the equivalent of 4 disks and full recoverability -- but how do I go about > performing such a recovery operation after a disk failure in Fedora? Or > does the Adaptec controller handle this automagically somehow? My > ignorance here has me leaning towards striping/mirroring -- simply because > I think I understand how recovery works. > > If this was your server, how would you set up the five disks? RAID 5, and if it's hardware RAID the recovery will be done by the controller - either automagically, or by going into the SCSI/RAID BIOS. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
