Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Follow-up question: Is my proposed strategy below correct: > - Make a copy of all existing directories and files on the current disk using > clonezilla. > - Install the new M.2 SSDs. > - Partitioning the new SSDs for RAID1 using an external tool. > - Doing a minimal installation of C7 and

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hallo Simon, > Anyway, the splitting of large disks has additional advantages. Think of > what happens in case of a failure (power loss, kernel crash...). With the > disk as one large chunk, the whole disk has to be resynced on restart > while with smaller segments only those which are marked as

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Simon Matter
> On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote: >> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of >>> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs >>> to >>> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Simon Matter
> On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of >> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs >> to >> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk, you wont >> lose redundancy on

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread H
On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote: > On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of >> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs to >> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk,

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread H
On 01/11/2023 08:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Perhaps you have not dealt with Firefox?  :) > > On my Fedora 35 notebook, it slowly gobbles memory and I have to quit it > after some number of days and restart. > > Now I only have 16GB of memory, 16GB physical swap, and 8GB zram swap. > >

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread H
On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of > equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs to > one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk, you wont > lose redundancy on the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Simon Matter
> > > On 1/11/23 02:09, Simon Matter wrote: >>> I plan to upgrade an existing C7 computer which currently has one 256 >>> GB >>> SSD to use mdadmin software RAID1 after adding two 4 TB M2. SSDs, the >>> rest >>> of the system remaining the same. The system also has one additional >>> internal and

Re: [CentOS] RAID1 setup

2023-01-11 Thread Simon Matter
> > > On 1/10/23 20:20, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Official drives should be here Friday, so trying to get reading. >> >> >> >> On 1/9/23 01:32, Simon Matter wrote: >>> Hi >>> Continuing this thread, and focusing on RAID1. I got an HPE Proliant gen10+ that has hardware RAID support.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/23 02:09, Simon Matter wrote: I plan to upgrade an existing C7 computer which currently has one 256 GB SSD to use mdadmin software RAID1 after adding two 4 TB M2. SSDs, the rest of the system remaining the same. The system also has one additional internal and one external harddisk but

Re: [CentOS] RAID1 setup

2023-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/10/23 20:20, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Official drives should be here Friday, so trying to get reading. On 1/9/23 01:32, Simon Matter wrote: Hi Continuing this thread, and focusing on RAID1. I got an HPE Proliant gen10+ that has hardware RAID support. (can turn it off if I want).

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2023-01-11 Thread git
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