Re: Software RAID5
On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:00:19 +0200, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a system with a software raid1 on 2 sata drive 80 GB
> I've all my system on LVM on this underlying raid.
>
> For performances reasons (video editing), I'm thinking if a RAID5.
>
> Is there somebody with some experience with raid5:
> - performances
> - behaviour in case of a crash
>
> Is there an easy process to migrate from raid1 to raid5 without
> reinstalling everything?
>
> Regards
>
> Jean-Luc
I managed to switch from a 2x200Gb RAID-0 to a 3x200Gb RAID-5 without
reinstalling using raidreconf <http://unthought.net/raidreconf/> on my
AMD64.
I'm still amazed it work flawlessly, as latest raidreconf dates from 2001!
Obviously I backed-up everything before, but I didn't need used it.
Although I ran in a Amd64, I compiled raidreconf as a 32-bit application,
since I was afraid it wasn't 64-bit clean.
Then it's a matter of writing two raidtabs -- one describing the
current raid setup, and another describing the desired setup -- and run
raidreconf.
José Fonseca
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