Hello linux-raid list, I want to create a Linux Software RAID1 on linux FC5 (x86_64), from SATA II disks. I am a noob in this. I am reading now chapter 26 ,"Linux Software Raid" , of "Linux Quick Fix Notebook" book by Peter Harrison. http://www.quickfixnotebook.com/ It talks in that chpater about using raidtools (mkraid and /etc/raidtab config file) to do this. I looked for it and saw that as far as I understand, raidtools is quite old - from 2003. for exanple, http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raidtools/ More than that, I saw that on my FC5, I did not have it at all. Looking a bit more, I saw that there is installed mdadm util, which is part of mdadm rpm. "mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also known as Software RAID arrays." according to: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ANNOUNCE So my question is this: is raidtools deprecated ? Is it possible at all to use raidtool to create linux software RAID1, running 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 kernel on x86_64 ? Is using mdadm is the way to create linux software RAID1 ? Is it the only way ? Regards, Mark Ryden - 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
