asrock mobo - raid sata disks

BJB wrote:

Aragorn wrote:
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Linux software RAID 0 and 1 are quite reliable, including the use of
hotspare disks.

If you disconnect one disk from the array, the array will signal that it
runs in "degraded mode", just like with a hardware RAID. If there is a
hot spare disk, the array will rebuild itself using the hot spare. ;-)

Just read the documentation on Linux Software RAID on...

http://www.tldp.org

... or check out the /man/ page on /mdadm./ ;-)

Again thanks for the reply.

No problem - that's what we're here for. ;-)

This line seems to be interesting to follow.

It might also be worth mentioning that I am running a small IRC network with
a few friends, and that our main IRC server is an AMD Phenom X4 machine
with an nForce chipset, with two SATA disks in a Linux RAID 1
configuration.

I did not install the operating system on that machine myself - CentOS 5.1 -
or set up the RAID, but apparently it was set up by my colleague with a
partitioning layout similar to what I would have done, and with all
partitions being mirrored. Just to show you that it works perfectly
well. ;-)

The only thing that was still rather experimental a while ago - although I
haven't exactly checked its progress in the meantime - is software RAID 6
support in the Linux kernel. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50 all work very well,
as does the linear approach of Logical Volume Management. ;-)

Hey, this is a Real Operating System (TM), not some braindead preliminary
alpha idea released as a production-ready business platform from that place
in Redmond. ;-)

P.S.: In the event that the /mdadm/ utility is not installed on your system
at this stage, you should get the /raidtools/ package. The RAID support
itself is already configured into most distribution kernels as loadable
modules, but you'll need the /raidtools/ package to have the system read
and properly execute the instructions in */etc/raidtab* - it's a file
similar to */etc/inittab,* but specifically pertaining to your RAID
configuration, and it's read at boot time.

Good luck! ;-)

*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)