Offtopic: hardware advice for SAS RAID6

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Michael
On the heels of last week's post asking about hardware recommendations, I'd like to ask a few questions too. :) I'm considering my first SAS purchase. I'm planning to build a software RAID6 array using a SAS JBOD attached to a linux box. I haven't decided on any of the hardware specifics. I'm

Re: mdadm usage: creating arrays with helpful names?

2007-06-28 Thread Richard Michael
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:12:56AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: (back on list for google's benefit ;) and because there are some good questions and I don't know all the answers... ) Thanks, I didn't realize I didn't 'reply-all' to stay on the list. Hopefully it will snowball as people who use

mdadm usage: creating arrays with helpful names?

2007-06-26 Thread Richard Michael
How do I create an array with a helpful name? i.e. /dev/md/storage? The mdadm man page hints at this in the discussion of the --auto option in the ASSEMBLE MODE section, but doesn't clearly indicate how it's done. Must I create the device nodes by hand first using MAKEDEV? Thanks. - To