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The "EASY" way to install RAID 0


Myatu
07-03-2009, 09:53
Hmm. Not sure if doing that is efficient though. That's kind of like... Uhm... Patting your head with one hand while rubbing your stomach with the other (for lack of any better analogies). Lots of IO for little data.

ovhfan2
07-03-2009, 01:56
With software raid you can use different raid levels for each partition, something that cannot be done with hardware raid. In this real example, the /boot partiition has been assigned to raid 1 and the remaining partitions to raid 0.

It's linux magic!

derchris
07-03-2009, 01:36
Quote Originally Posted by ovhfan2
root@srv1 [~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] [faulty]
md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
513984 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid0 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
8192896 blocks 64k chunks

md4 : active raid0 sdb4[1] sda4[0]
1447729408 blocks 64k chunks

unused devices:
thats not a raid.
that are just some partitions, packed into a software nightmare.
real raids consists of whole disks.

ovhfan2
06-03-2009, 00:44
Quote Originally Posted by derchris
How would you setup a Raid 1 and Raid 0 with the same 2 disks ?!?
root@srv1 [~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] [faulty]
md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
513984 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid0 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
8192896 blocks 64k chunks

md4 : active raid0 sdb4[1] sda4[0]
1447729408 blocks 64k chunks

unused devices:

slayer2005
05-03-2009, 01:59
Quote Originally Posted by Seedbox Paradis
ovh's manager lets you install certain partitions raid 1 while others on the same drive are raid 0 :P dont know how that works tbh, but maybe they haxed the servers

Nasty prices

Seedbox Paradis
04-03-2009, 23:31
ovh's manager lets you install certain partitions raid 1 while others on the same drive are raid 0 :P dont know how that works tbh, but maybe they haxed the servers

derchris
04-03-2009, 22:29
How would you setup a Raid 1 and Raid 0 with the same 2 disks ?!?

ovhfan2
04-03-2009, 18:26
Wondering if there is any merit in having two /boot partitions (one on each physical drive) and setting it up as raid1 instead of raid0 and all the rest as raid0?

judgey
21-02-2009, 19:56
Oky finaly a easy way to install your harddrive(s) via linux

You will need to do a reinstall (i will add screen shots asap)

Oky goto OVH manager, servers, Reinstall / Change OS

When you get to "Choice of the partitions" goto "Other layout of partitions" and pick "RAID software"

You can leave everything till you see "Mountpoint" pick "boot" and say give it 500meg (or wotever you want)

NOW when u see "RAID type :" you pick 0 and thats its you can use both your harddrives.

Wow yay!!!

I will edit this later with screenshots and stuff

Hope it helps some of you