Setting up RAID

Setting up RAID

[gerardo juarez-mondragon]

I want to install a machine with two RAID
partitions: 4 disks, 2 for mirroring the OS and
2 for users' data (RAID 1). The configuration is
straightforward in the case of the data disks,
but how do I install from new the OS as a RAID?

Do I install and later create the RAID? But in
this case, what flag do I put to the OS partition
during format, the one for a RAID disk? Well, you
see what I mean, in what order should I perfomr
all the tasks?

Thanks in advance,
Gerardo
 



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Re: Setting up RAID

[Joakim Ryden]

What is it you are trying to install?

--Jo

Quoting gerardo juarez-mondragon <gjuarezmondragon@metacrawler.com>:

=>
=> I want to install a machine with two RAID
=> partitions: 4 disks, 2 for mirroring the OS and
=> 2 for users' data (RAID 1). The configuration is
=> straightforward in the case of the data disks,
=> but how do I install from new the OS as a RAID?
=>
=> Do I install and later create the RAID? But in
=> this case, what flag do I put to the OS partition
=> during format, the one for a RAID disk? Well, you
=> see what I mean, in what order should I perfomr
=> all the tasks?
=>
=> Thanks in advance,
=> Gerardo
=>
=>
=>
=>
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Re: Setting up RAID

[Jeff Largent]

SysAdmin Mag has a good artical on booting raid 1 with linux.
It's is kind of a pain to set up but works nice.

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1155/sam0101g/0101g.htm

gerardo juarez-mondragon wrote:
> I want to install a machine with two RAID
> partitions: 4 disks, 2 for mirroring the OS and
> 2 for users' data (RAID 1). The configuration is
> straightforward in the case of the data disks,
> but how do I install from new the OS as a RAID?
> 
> Do I install and later create the RAID? But in
> this case, what flag do I put to the OS partition
> during format, the one for a RAID disk? Well, you
> see what I mean, in what order should I perfomr
> all the tasks?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Gerardo
>  
> 
> 
> 
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