[ML-General] hardware RAID

[Brian Oborn]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:41 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  Software Linux raid is fine with the striping but it sucks at mirroring.
> The second (mirror) drive is NOT identical in any shape form or fashion.
> Even the partitions are different.  And it is not bootable!!!  In
> mirroring, I want immediate fail-over, or at most, one shutdown,
> remove/replace drive, then back up right where I was.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

When doing software RAID with linux you generally use partitions instead of
whole drives. With only two drives and any RAID controller you want to be
using RAID 1 (not 5) which is where you might have run into issues.
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