On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 16:14:48 +0100, moi <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gary Stainburn schrieb: > >Hi folks > > > >I'm just about to set up a Fedora box with 3 320GB HDDs and I want to set > >up software RAID. Anyone got any good pointers on links on how to do this? > > > >Google has usual has provided a plethora of hits, but I was wondering if > >anyone could recomment good ones. > > > >Gary > > > If possible, try deciding on which RAID level to use beforehand. > > Wikipedia has an excellent explanation for those. Then implement it > witch mdadm :) If he is doing a fresh install, you can select custom partitioning and do it during the install. With three drives, you will most likely want to use raid 5 for most of your partitions. /boot should be on a raid 1 partition mirrored accross all three drives. Depending on why you are using raid, you might want 3 separate nonraid swap partitions, a raid 0 or a raid 5 swap partition. If you particularly like using raid 1 (for example you split mirrors to do testing or the like), then you can also use that buy having 3 raid 1 partitions split accross the three unique pairs of drives.
