GodFlesh Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Do mandrake installation allows to setup a raid array righ in the beginning of the installation ? Or do we have to use mdadm after installation ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 No you can do it from the beginning. Better to plan it in advanced but choose custom in the partitioning and then you choose type = linux raid!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted February 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Nice ! I will try that. Is it possible to choose between raid 0 and raid 1 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Yep, I actually did a full install of 9.2 on my test machine and Did RAID 1. Works fine.... :D However really plan it out BEFORE you start, think about if you will RAID /boot etc. or /swap!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted February 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 raid0 for /swap is not necessary. If you put 2 swap space on 2 different hard drives with the same priority, the linux kernel will naturally have a raid0 like behaviour ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Yep but what I was trying to say is you need to plan this before you start partitioning the disks. I had 2 identical disks.... I deliberately made the swap the same size on each so that everything would be symetrical. I whimped out on /boot tough and ended up just leaving a empty partition on 1 disk (its was only a few megs) but in retrospect I could have raided it :D The install for RAID is actually quite nice.... certainly one of the better wizards in Mandrake .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted February 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 What partition sheme do you use ? On a desktop system, i go the simple route of just one partition for / and the other for /home. I have never experience problem with this, execpt on a debian box where downloaded packages are kept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Hi GodFlesh Made the install last night of Mdk10RC1 on a RAID set. Since its just a test machine I didn't actually plan a permanent RAID set. I made two 800 MB partitins on each of two 80GB disks and 2x80GB-800MB. hda1 I defined as /boot hdb1 as swap hda2 as raid 1 for md0 hdb1 as raid 1 for md0 and md0 as / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted February 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 ok ! Have you done some benchs in raid0 mode ? Or always going the safe route with raid1 ? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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