On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Kevin K <kevink1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
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>> At Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:33:50 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Many of the SATA (so-called) hardware raid controllers are not really
>> hardware raid controllers, they are 'fakeraid' and requires lots of
>> software RAID logic. You are generally *better off* to *disable* the
>> motherboard RAID controller and use native Linux software RAID.
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> The only caveat I can think of is if you wanted to BOOT off of the raid configuration. The BIOS wouldn't understand the Linux RAID implementation.
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> But for RAID 1, especially, you probably want a minimum of 3 drives. A boot drive with Linux, and the other 2 RAIDed together for speed. That way, the logic to handle the failure of one of the drives isn't on the drive that may have failed.
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> Of course, if it is the Linux drive that failed, you replace that (from backup?) and your data should all still be available.
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You can install Linux on software RAID1 :)
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