Running RAID in a Fedora System

[Hans Müller]

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.