Thanks Len, comments embedded below.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:26:53AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:20:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The board itself has hardware SATA raid available. If I go for raid, > > then I'll ask here for the advantages/disadvantages. > > Unless you have a high end server board, you do not have onboard > hardware raid. You have onboard fake raid (which is software raid done > in the bios and the windows driver). Linux's software raid is faster, Board is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (AM2), says it has hardware raid (Raid0,raid1, raid0+1, raid 5, and JBOD via the onboard NVIDIA MediaShield RAID controller. This sounds like hardware raid to me and is configured via the bios menus. > > More to the point for me, though, is where can I get current howtos or > > guides on fixing problems when things are in raid or LVM? Its a whole > > new world for me and the LDP HOWTOs are too out of date, and > > debian-reference doesn't cover it. > > The installer supports setting it all up. It isn't very hard... Can you give me either a URL or a thumbnail sketch of how to deal with a disk failure if I set it up as you suggest? You suggest ext3 for the / system. Why would I not just use JFS for everything? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
