Hi,
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:26:36 +0100, "Jim Ford"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I am running out of space on my root device and am thinking of adding
> another scsi disk using Raid - linear or 0 (whichever is the
> easiest!). Is software Raid as fearsome as all the docs I read
> suggest? Ideally, I'd like to be able to hitch the disk up, add a
> couple of lines to my rc startup file - job done! Am I asking for the
> moon? Would I be better off getting out my wallet for a bigger (IDE)
> HD?
It's not that hard, it's easier --- at least as long as you are using
the latest patches on www.kernel.org. Set up the /etc/raidtab, do a
mkraid, run mke2fs to make the filesystem and use fdisk to mark each
partition in the raidset with partition type "0xfd". The kernel will
auto-start the raid for you at boot time: there will be no need to
change any rc scripts at all.
At the same time, it's harder --- currently there is no way to take an
existing filesystem and simply extend it non-destructively using raid.
You will definitely have to find somewhere else to put the data while
you build the raid partitions.
--Stephen
