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#1 2006-10-29 12:39:21

Mr Green
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Raid1 here I come

Ok I have backed up my main drive...

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

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#2 2006-10-29 17:16:14

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Hi,

Good thing to have made a backup  smile !

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

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#3 2006-10-29 17:46:22

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Yeah the wiki stuff may do the trick...

In RAID1 will I notice any access speed increase?


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#4 2006-10-29 18:41:17

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Yes, the thing is that in raid 1, when reading data, disks work in a asynchronous way. So they work togheter and each of them get a different set of data. Reading is fast with raid 1. In the other hand, writing is as fast as the slowest of your drives.

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.

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#5 2006-10-29 19:03:08

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Dude I got two 250gb sata drives. ...

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?


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#6 2006-10-29 19:23:31

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Nope, never used LVM at all...

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#7 2006-10-29 19:28:08

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Re: Raid1 here I come

 cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] 
unused devices: <none>

Nothing yet.... soon lol


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#8 2006-11-04 07:36:11

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Too hard to RAID , isn't it? :-)

By the way tpowa recent iso (5 Oct 06)  and wiki instructions about RAID and LVM are outdated and incompatible.


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#9 2006-11-04 07:43:08

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Re: Raid1 here I come

thinking about trying out hardware raid instead

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!!!!


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#10 2006-11-04 09:18:26

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Re: Raid1 here I come

In my case Hardware RAID is unsupported :-(
Intel ICH8R chipset (Intel Matrix Storage) has NO interesting for Linux.

Anyone should stop buying Intel Matrix Storage motherboards. I will do :-)


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#11 2006-11-04 09:33:51

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Re: Raid1 here I come

well you can buy cards cheap enough....


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#12 2006-11-19 13:27:03

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Re: Raid1 here I come

I just finished my new RAID5 system :-)
You may find useful my Serial ATA2 and software RAID performance comparison


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#13 2006-11-19 13:51:39

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Wow!   8)

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 ?


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#14 2006-11-19 14:20:56

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Re: Raid1 here I come

All you need are here:
Archlinux base or current from tpowa recent iso

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


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#15 2006-11-19 14:30:15

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Re: Raid1 here I come

Cool thanks very much .... good luck with your system

Its Cool its runs on Arch ;-)


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