On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 19:18:13 +0100 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > Le 09/03/2022 à 17:12, d...@d404.nl a écrit : > > On 09-03-2022 16:55, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:42:07PM +0100, aitor wrote: > >> > >>> Did you read the following guide? > >>> > >>> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid > >> Interesting note. > >> > >> What is a "fake RAID"? Is it a RAID or not? > >> > >> -- hendrik > >> > > A real RAID controller has hardware and software on board and often a > > battery backup. A "fake" RAID does have some hardware but no software > > or better some software but depends on a Windows driver for the RAID > > functions. Same trick as with Win modems and printers. > > > I have worked with Dell Poweredge servers around 15 y ago. These > had PERC hardware RAIDs able to completely do the whole job without any > help from the OS. The configured RAID devices were seen by the kernel as > individual disks. After a few years working like this I configured the > PERC so as to show every disk individually (therefore no RAID), and > managed software RAIDs using mdadm. md RAIDS, not dm RAIDS. dm stands > for device-mapper, which also means Logical Volume Manager. On the > contrary of what is said in the Debian document, I found LVM (dm RAIDs) > not much more usefull than md and overly complex. On the other hand, > mdadm also is not a piece of cake but I can find my way with it and I > have developped a graphics monitoring tool for it, actually a little web > server displaying the status of all the host's md RAIDs. Hi, I'm interested about this web server thing is it packaged?
Ciao, Tito > What I mean is that there is probably the possibility to configure > the PERC as no-RAID and build a software RAID on Linux, if this is > manageable for your Win10. > > -- Didier > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
