<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm a BIG fan of software RAID. ALWAYS works. Any distro will support it with caveats: /boot can't be on software RAID5 (without serious drive mojo). <br><br></div>Partition out the drives to all have a 100MB partition. Make drive A and B use it for /boot in a RAID1. Have the rest use it for swap. Use the balance of the drive space for RAID5 plus spare.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Greg Clifton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com" target="_blank">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">OK, put down the flame throwers, this is a US Government system, so we can't change the OS.<div><br>
<div>Here is the deal, I have a system I'm trying to complete and ship today or tomorrow that needs RAID 5 with a hot spare. We're running an ASUS mobo with an ASUS Pike 2008 LSI controller which only supports RAID 0, 1, 10. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is a dual Xeon E5-2630 system with 64 GB of RAM so there should be plenty of resources and horsepower. I'm soliciting recommendations/advise regarding the possibility of creating a Linux software RAID 5 under virtual box. </div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Good idea/bad idea?</div><div>Pros/cons?</div><div>What distro would you recommend? </div><div>Never done such a thing, so a pointer to a good tutorial would be nice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Other option would be to get a different controller which would delay shipment and probably eat $350 of profit at least.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>
Greg Clifton</div><div> </div></div>
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