[CentOS] First Time Setting up RAID

Thu Nov 14 22:07:54 UTC 2013
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Thu, November 14, 2013 12:51, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 14.11.2013 18:23, schrieb James B. Byrne:
>> From what I have read it appears that the system disk must use RAID 1 if it
>> uses RAID at all.
>
> no!
>
> /boot must be RAID1, see below
> md0: /boot
> md1: /
> md2: /data
>
> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1] [raid10]
> md2 : active raid10 sda3[4] sdb3[3] sdc3[5] sdd3[0]
>       3875222528 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
>       bitmap: 4/29 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> md1 : active raid10 sda2[4] sdb2[3] sdc2[5] sdd2[0]
>       30716928 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
>       bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> md0 : active raid1 sda1[4] sdb1[3] sdd1[0] sdc1[5]
>       511988 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU]
>

So, this is saying, if I read it aright, that one can have multiple RAID
arrays spread over the same spindles but each in differing partitions.  Is
that right?

I am just getting started with this so I am trying to fit what I am reading
regarding RAID with what I have dealt with in the past, mainly LVM ext3
volumes.  So I am doubtless just not getting it in some important way.

BTW, I intend to install CentOS-6.4 with software RAID as the eight disks are
mounted in the system chassis.  As far as I can tell, there is no hardware
RAID controller (unless there is one on the MB, in which case SW Raid is
likely a better choice anyway.

Regards,

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