On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:50:45AM +0200, besonen wrote: > > i'm interested in learning what i need to know to stop using (or reduce my > dependence on) 3ware raid cards for mirroring. > > i would like to reduce my dependence on proprietary hardware.
good plan... > > > some questions to get started: > > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive > protected? no. raid 1 boots just fine. I do it on my server at home with a raid1 /boot partition and a raid5 / partition. > > can i take a single drive that was part of a mirrored array and attach it > to another computer and access the data? so far as I know, yes, for a mirrored array. other configurations cannot do this. > > if a hard drive in a mirrored array fails, and i replace the failed drive, > will the array auto-rebuild? yes, once you add the partitions to the array, it will rebuild it. and during the rebuild process, can the > rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild > occurs? not sure. try man mdadm. A
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