On Oct 8, 2011 7:23 PM, "Ljubomir Ljubojevic" <office@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Vreme: 10/09/2011 12:16 AM, Trey Dockendorf piše: > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Warren< > > hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> why bother with bios FAKERAID using PIO mode(effectively). Make a > >> backup and redo using MD raid and turn off the bios raid. Then things > >> will work correctly. > > > I did the downgrade it it worked fine after. > > I just now realized that you have fakeraid (dmraid). That is very > dangerous, because if MB dies, you might need to find another one with > same chipset to make it work. On the other hand, Linux software RAID > (mdadm). That way your RAID will work on any MB. > > So I also recommend William Warren's suggestion to convert as soon as > possible. You can even use "RAID 10 - far" to gain 2 x read and 1 x > write speed of normal disk while mirroring. > > > -- > > Ljubomir Ljubojevic > (Love is in the Air) > PL Computers > Serbia, Europe > > Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your > trusty Spiderman... > StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Can anyone confirm or advise how to do partionable raid with mdadm in Centos 6? I made a few attempts using methods from centos 5 with no success. Everytime I created md_d0 it did not contain any partions from the member disks. - Trey _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos