I use mdadm. As you'll see from my previous posts in this thread, I had a lot of problems trying to get my FAKERAID (onboard RAID controller) working, so I dismantled the array and set up software RAID1 for my /home partition.
It's not the simplest of things but if you can read and have a good guide to follow, you can get through it. Here is one such guide: http://bfish.xaedalus.net/?p=188 I can't stress enough how important it is that you read what's written. And remember that setting up md-raid, as with any other new RAID array, you'll lose all the data on the disks. The advantage of mdraid is clear: flexibility. You can take a mismatch batch of HDs over various controllers and jam them together. You also have the option to safely (99% of the time) shrink and grow arrays - a feature only the most expensive hardware RAID controllers have. But it comes at the cost of performance. Any (decent) hardware RAID5 controller will obliterate any software RAID. Take care. Oli On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 01:34 +0000, cdavis33 wrote: > Hi everyone, > First off, I'm completely new when it comes to RAID and Linux. But I > have an old PC, 4-500GB hard drives and a home network. I would like > to setup this computer as a Samba server with RAID5. I have a 40GB > hard drive to hold the OS and am ready to get this thing running. I've > tried to get things running from reading this post and many, many > others with no luck. The closest that I got is having a drive with the > following attributes: /dev/md0 (-698707507712.00 B). > I don't know. Is that close? A friend of mine said that I should do a > software raid which, from reading this, I've come to understand > involves mdadm. I really just lost. I don't care what OS I use, but > I'd really like to get into Linux. Another friend said that I should > use Ubuntu Server 8.10, but all I found was command line. I've come to > realize that he was playing a cruel joke on me. I know Windows very > well. But anything server related now-a-days seems to be going with > Linux. > Is there a VERY detailed how-to or walk-through that would help me go > from where I'm at (or scratch. I really don't care at this point.) to > a RAID5 Samba server? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank > you. -- dmraid45 target please https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97655 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
