Running RAID in a Fedora System

[Allan Metts]

At 05:58 PM 12/7/2003, Hans wrote:
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>At first you must show that your RAID contoller ist supportet by Fedora.

At 06:28 PM 12/7/2003, Seth wrote:

>You don't mention what adaptec controller you have??


This is an Adaptec AAA-133U2, apparently part of Adaptec's "Array 1000" 
family.

--*-- Anyone see any issues with this controller and Fedora support?

--*-- It sounds like the general consensus is that, with five disks, I 
should use RAID 0/1 with a hot spare -- provided I can live without 60% of 
my disk space.  If not, use RAID 5.  Everyone agree?

--*-- In any case, I'm hearing that I shouldn't have to worry at all about 
recovery.  The array will simply chug along with a failed disk until I 
replace it.  And when I do, the replacement disk will assume its proper 
role without much help from me (or special software) on boot-up.  Am I 
oversimplifying?

Can anyone point me to a basic RAID monitoring / diagnostic tool that would 
support this controller on Fedora?  This is a single, highly-visible server 
-- and my main interest is in actually using (not administering) this 
machine -- so nothing fancy or complicated is needed.

Thanks again,
Allan