Its Cool its runs on Arch ;-)
]]>Follow the instructions :
Installing with Software RAID or LVM
If you have troubles with grub read this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=26484
If your kernel hungs read this
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=27061
I was thinking more of raid1 for my setup [two drives!]
Software Raid... would be interested in how you set it up
/me feels a wiki page coming on...
As a side note was there any reason why you did not use Hardware Raid on mobo ?
]]>Anyone should stop buying Intel Matrix Storage motherboards. I will do :-)
]]>If you want to try out raid without messing up system then set up a couple of loopdevices first ....
As always backup backup backup first!!!!
]]>By the way tpowa recent iso (5 Oct 06) and wiki instructions about RAID and LVM are outdated and incompatible.
]]> cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
unused devices: <none>
Nothing yet.... soon lol
]]>I'm going to play with a disc image on a loop device first ..... play around with it
Do not want to use grub shoulds work with lilo
Yeah Raid1 will be fine for now
May need to resize /home to take add /media
You using LVM as per wiki?
]]>I personaly love raid 5. Its speed in writing is between raid 0 and 1, in reading it is faster than raid 1, since you have to have 3 disks for raid 5 to work... Raid 1 with 4 disks will probably read faster. And about safety of data, as good as a raid 1 with 2 disks.
]]>In RAID1 will I notice any access speed increase?
]]>Good thing to have made a backup !
Here is a howto a bit more detailled on raid stuff : http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
This documents also explains how to transform an ordinary disk into a raid array with the data still on it.
But a quick search in the wiki with the raid keyword hae give up some interesting stuff...
Update to raid
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … em_to_RAID
Install raid from scratch (just in case...)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … AID_or_LVM
Hope this can help ! Good luck
]]>Want to go raid1 can I do it without reinstalling Arch?
Wiki seems to use cfdisk to create partitions already have them on main drive ?
Will I need to set up mirror drive using cfdisk or will mdadm create them?
TIA
MrG
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