Re: Running RAID in a Fedora System

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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




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