Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2
At Thursday, 06 January 2005, Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include
a storage
>array
>> using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk.
>>
>[...]
>
>raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools
>
>Hope that helps. I have a machine that boots off /dev/md0.
>
>greg@asbestos:~$ df
>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/md1 1989568 103480 1886088 6% /
>tmpfs 485756 0 485756 0% /dev/shm
>/dev/md0 141760 8752 133008 7% /boot
>/dev/md4 9989504 18308 9971196 1% /home
>/dev/md3 995008 660 994348 1% /tmp
>/dev/md5 15426176 186464 15239712 2% /usr
>/dev/md2 9989504 174972 9814532 2% /var
>
>I use mdadm exclusively.
>
>greg@asbestos:~$ apt-cache show mdadm
>Package: mdadm
>Priority: optional
>Section: admin
>Installed-Size: 252
>Maintainer: Mario Joussen <joussen@debian.org>
>Architecture: i386
>Version: 1.8.1-1
>Replaces: mdctl
>Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), makedev, debconf (>> 0.5)
>Conflicts: mdctl (<< 0.7.2), raidtools2 (<< 1.00.3-12.1)
>Filename: pool/main/m/mdadm/mdadm_1.8.1-1_i386.deb
>Size: 104964
>MD5sum: 0550c71ce7c24d77b93bac373cd98839
>Description: Manage MD devices aka Linux Software Raid
> mdadm is a program that can be used to create, manage, and monitor MD
> devices. As such it provides a similar set of functionality to the
> raidtools packages.
> .
> Unlike raidtools, mdadm can perform (almost) all of its functions
> without having a configuration file.
>
>mdadm, is the future. Although raidtools2 can co-exist alongside.
>--
>greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
>
>The technology that is
>Stronger, better, faster: Linux
>
is there a good howto to set up raid1? In another post, I upgraded
my kernel and now I cannot make a functional raid1 array. I have
been working on this for weeks now and am not getting very far.
regards.
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