Running RAID in a Fedora System

Allan Metts ametts2 at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 7 19:53:39 UTC 2003


Hi all,

I'm setting up Fedora in a server with five identical SCSI disks and a 
hardware RAID controller.  I want reliability AND performance, so I 
understand my options here are either RAID5 or RAID 0/1 (combination of 
striping and mirroring).

Any advice on how I should set this box up?  I know RAID 5 would give me 
the equivalent of 4 disks and full recoverability -- but how do I go about 
performing such a recovery operation after a disk failure in Fedora?  Or 
does the Adaptec controller handle this automagically somehow?  My 
ignorance here has me leaning towards striping/mirroring -- simply because 
I think I understand how recovery works.

If this was your server, how would you set up the five disks?

Thanks in advance,
Allan





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