Re: Storage server

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:47:52PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Did you get it to actually install on the RAID and to boot from that?
> Last time I tried with a RAID-1, it didn't work. It's ridiculously
> difficult to get it set up so that everything is on software raid.

Yes, everything is on RAID. 2 boot partitions are on RAID1, everything
else, 4 big partition are on RAID10. Didn't work until I used mentioned
1MB BIOS boot partition at the beginning of all four disks.

> > Anyhow, this is output of "cat /proc/mdstat":
> > Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] 
> > md1 : active raid10 sda3[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb3[1]
> >       5859288064 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
> >       [======>..............]  resync = 32.1% (1881658368/5859288064) finish=325.2min speed=203828K/sec
> >       
> > md0 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
> >       488128 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
> >       
> > unused devices: <none>
> >
> > I'm not sure what is being copied on freshly installed system.
> 
> On top of that, by default it'll do a check or rebuild of some sort
> every first Sunday night of every month.

Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,
Veljko