[ale] "Fake" Sata RAID

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:22 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Don't use fake raid.
> 
> If you have to then skip it and treat them like 2 SATA drives.  Use md
> tools in Linux to RAID1 the drives.
> 
> Make sure you install grub on *both* drives.  That way if one goes bad
> it will still boot
> 
> Also don't place swap on one drive but on a md device.  If a device goes
> bad and you are swapping on that drive you'll box will die.
> 
> These are just a few things I learned when dealing with fakeraid and md
> tools.

Ditto what Chris said.  If you use Linux md tools (software raid) then
you have greater control over recovery.  I've just seen too many
problems with recovery from hardware raid, and I've seen nothing but
ease from using software raid... in Linux of course.  Software raid in
Windows is a much different story. ;-)

-Jim P.
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