Am Sonntag 07 Dezember 2003 22:00 schrieb Sam Barnett-Cormack: > 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. At first you must show that your RAID contoller ist supportet by Fedora.
