Speaking of RAID...
I'm about to get my hands on a copy of that O'Reilly
book "Managing RAID on Linux" - is this a good book or ?
Been fighting a problem for a couple of days now and I'm
not any closer to solving it (IDE-RAID/Promise controller
with SuSE 7.3 and Win XP)...
Thanks,
- Mark
>From: "David A. Sinck" <plug-discuss@grueslayer.com>
>Subject: Software RAID
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:58:09 -0700
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>\_ SMTP quoth Don Calfa on 4/28/2003 14:48 as having spake thusly:
>\_
>\_ I'm in the process of testing Linux Software RAID. My goal is to take
>\_ an array in one distro and access it from other distro's. Where is the
>\_ best site for info? I currently have the array built with RH9, plan to
>\_ kill (not the array) and try MDK9.1, Gentoo, Debian (woody), and Slack.
>\_ I've found stuff on linas.org but I need more rudimentary info.
>\_
>\_ I eventually will have a distro up that will use it and I need the
>\_ recovery practice.
>
>I haven't read all through it, but so far the ora book on raid has
>been good.
>
>I'd save your config file(s) separately from /etc/ so that you can get
>the devices set up easily in the various dists.
>
>I believe 'mdadm' is the "tool of choice" according to the ora raid
>book.
>
>There's a few mailing lists around (besides this one) that might be of
>usefulness if you don't like the qualithy or nature of the answers
>here. :-)
>
>David
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