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Re: RAIDs anyone?



On Fri, 1 May 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> I was looking for the BIG-Linux mailing list on netspace but it seems to
> have been deserted. I am thinking of installing a serious RAID chasis on
> my centeral machine, since we just hit the 45 gig mark and data is
> precious. I looked all around but I haven't found satisfactory info about
> real-world RAIDS, quality of support in Linux (software or Hardware RAIDs,
> hot swap? spin dows single disks on the bus?)
> 
> if anyone has recommendations, or knows of a mailing list or site that
> DOES?
> 
> thanks in advance...
> 
> 
> --
> Ira Abramov    <ira(a)scso.com>     whois: IA58   (a linux enthusiast)
> 
> `Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.'
>                 -- Darth Vader

Software RAID-0 support is available in the kernel from around Febuary
96. Support for software RAID-1/RAID-4/RAID-5 is newer, and was included
in the 2.1.x kernels in November 97.

A kernel patch which adds software RAID-1/4/5 support to the 2.0.x
kernels and a set of user-space tools which maintain the RAID set
are available on:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/alpha/raid145-971022-2.0.31.gz
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daeomns/raid/raidtools-pre3-0.42.tar.gz

Additional information is available on:

-	the linux-raid mailing list (linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu),
	archived at:

		http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-raid/

-	The "General Linux RAID options" home page, which also includes
	information about hardware RAID solutions, at:

		http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

-	The Software-RAID mini-howto, available on:

		ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID

Gadi