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
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