Re: [MLUG] new server

[ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I created the mirrors at install time using the Centos 5 DVD media.   
The install went normally, if a bit slowly, and the disks synced up a  
few hours after the initial reboot.  It's not hardware RAID, but it's  
free and it "just works."

I've run hardware RAID cards (NetCell Revolution - RIP to a great  
product), add-on software RAID cards (VIA and the like) and onboard  
software RAID (Intel, NVIDIA) and I still prefer OS-based Linux  
software RAID.  The errors make sense and there's no black box to  
work around when (not if) a drive fails.

All of our servers at work are at least RAID1, but they have real  
hardware RAID (LSI/MegaRAID mostly) and real tools to work with.

I sent Adam an email pledging $10-$20.  I think we can easily come up  
with ~$200!

  ryan woodsmall
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On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:51 AM, shawn wrote:

> On 11/6/07, ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > If we can come up with a $100 to $200, we should definitely get two
> > drives and mirror them.  I dropped two Seagate 320GB SATAs in my
> > server at home in a Linux software RAID1, and it's plenty good for my
> > purposes.
>
> how long did it take to initialize the mirror? i replaced a 500 in a
> box one time and it took over 2 days to finish mirroring the existing
> data. :)

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