On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Kristleifur Daðason <kristleifur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> When in doubt, read the manual two or three more times. >> >> This might also help you: http://wiki.tldp.org/LVM-on-RAID I wrote >> some background comparison sections when I made that... > > Good advice. > > The contents of the manual didn't really stick for me until I'd > actually *done* the tasks I was trying to figure out. The beautiful > and classic Catch-22 of learning new things. So I somewhat > empathically suggest you obtain a virtual machine program and start up > a few disposable virtual machines. (VirtualBox is pretty good and also > free.) Try creating some RAID's on VM's and getting them to boot, try > failing a device and readding it, etc. > > And keep the manual in a window next to the virtual machine's window :) > > -- Kristleifur > Exactly what I'm working on this afternoon. I've not created many VM's from scratch so there's a learning curve there, but potentially making the hard drives virtual in the new VM setup and then applying RAID to them seems like a good way to practice. Additionally I'm going to purchase maybe 3 or 4 drives and then see about using the other SATA ports on my desktop motherboard to create additional storage that I can get some real performance numbers on. Thanks! - Mark -- 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
