>>> Can anyone point me to a good howto or similar tutorial sort of page >>> about setting up linux raid with Md 2006, during or after install? >> >> >> >> The installer will set up RAID for you. You just tell it what drives, >> what >> RAID level, etc, and it will set it up. >> > > Well, not quite that simple. I don't remember seeing any menu questions > during partitioning of the first drive pertaining to raid if the > partitions were named (such as /, var, etc). If the partitions on that > drive are type Linux Raid, how does it decide which partitions are what? > I tried this, you see, but there didn't seem to be a way to assign a > partition name if that partition is added to raid. Do you set up > partitions on the second drive equal in size to the ones on the first > then add them to raid? If so, how do you tell it to mirror. I also tried > that, you see, but there was no result showing that anything was > mirrored. Can you be more specific.
After you assign the partition type to RAID, and then assign that partition to a RAID drive, then RAID shows up like another hard drive, in a separate tab in the partitioning software. You go in and format the RAID partitions and assign them mount points. In other words, once you hand a partition over to RAID, you have to go around and wait until it is all put together (by your choices), and then take the packaged RAID (which looks to Linux like a plain drive), and assign the whole package to a file system and to a mount point. Hope this helps, Ted ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
