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From: Rick Bragg <lists@gmnet.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Software/ Hardware RAID info
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:22:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208560939.7243.146.camel@isis> (raw)

Hi,

I am new to setting up RAID arrays, and I have experimented in the past
with software only RAID, but now I have a new Dell PowerEdge 1900 with a
SAS RAID controller daughter card.  

My question is: What is the difference in tools that I will use to
create and manage this hardware array?  Can I still use all the same
techniques and tools such as mdadm, LVM2, and GParted to manage my
array? or is it all in the bios.

Another question is how should I format these disks?  Typically I would
use a root file system, and a swap file system that is twice the size of
my memory.  Since all four of my disks are used for hardware RAID, can I
partition this into 2 array's? one for my root, and the other for
swap...

Any advice into setting this up is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Rick


             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18 23:22 Rick Bragg [this message]
2008-04-19  0:19 ` Software/ Hardware RAID info David Lethe
2008-04-19 13:10   ` Peter Grandi
2008-04-19 13:48     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen

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