On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:42 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
Craig White wrote:
I have a new server to setup. 4 hard drives and I had intended it to be hardware raid but that's a long story.
Does it make sense to set up the first two hard drives with RAID-0 partitions and then get through the install and then go back later and then create identically sized RAID-0 partitions on the other two drives and finally create the RAID-1 mirror from the first to the second?
are we to assume that your 'long story' involves this *not* being hardware raid? so you're setting this up with mdraid? or what?
if mdraid, I'd probably boot the CD (or PXE) to rescue mode, use fdisk and mdadm to partition and raid the drives as you like, then reboot the CD/PXE into normal install mode, and install onto the md devices you pre-created.
oh, and you normally build two mirrors (raid1) then stripe them together (raid0) rather than the other way around.
---- yes, mdraid
OK, noted... make them in raid-1 first - I gather all of the mdadm commands will have to be done in the shell prior to install.
Thanks
Craig