On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Enrique Garcia Briones wrote: > Hi, > > Let me introduce myself. > > I'm newbie in linux and in RAID over linux, I have configured a RAID-0 in a > NetBSD 2.0 BOX. so, now let me explain what I'm trying to do, > > Antecedents/Equipment: > > I have a Sparc 420 with 4 processors and 4 Gb in RAM, two SCSI SEAGATE > internal hard disk with an array of 12 hard disks (Storedge 1000). > > What we want to have: > > We installed Debian Linux (I think it is 3.1 with kernel 2.4), and we want > to have the following configuration: > > 1 System Harddisk > 1 RAID-1 Mirror Hard Drive > 12 Hard drives in RAID-5, 10 working and 2 as spare disks. > > I have read the setting-up for the raid-5 and 1, but I would like to ask you > if I can set-up a combined RAID configuration as mentioned above, since all > the examples I found upto now just talk of one RAD configuration, besides > this, I would like to ask you that if the configuration I want to have is > STRONG enough for the quantity of disk in the box, or if there must be any > other considerations to have. Wow. an A1000. Ancient, but probably still OK. I'm not sure if there are any management utilities for them that'll run under Linux - I've only ever seen 2 of these and they seem to be able to run RAID themselves - might be faster, but the ones I had were slow anyway - maybe you can re-configure them to just look like 12 disks and let Linux do the RAID on them... Heres my suggestion: Install a 2.6 kernel. Partition both internal disks identically, then then combine all the partitions with RAID-1. Boot off RAID-1, if you can - I'm not up on the SLILO/whatever boot loaders for Sparc though. Configure the 12 external disks using RAID-6. You'll get one disk more worth of storage that way and still be able to sustain a 2 disk failure. Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
