Ted Miller wrote:
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.
There must be something I'm not getting. I have sda and sdb.
If I create some partitions on sda in what seems an
appropriate size for what I'd like them to be formatted as
(/, usr, var, home [swap left out here because as I
understand it you don't put that in raid]), but make them
type raid, I am not able to do anything like assign mount
points in the raid tab although it does appear. Do I need to
do some work on the sdb drive?
Paul W
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