I had a RAID 5 system go down and had to rebuild from scratch. The first drive went belly up and no matter what I did I could not get the system up. Since then I at $WORK I configure one RAID array for the OS and the other Array for the data. Now this I really don't care I would just use the one array.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning <lann...@lanning.cc>wrote: > On 11/17/13 14:01, Atom Powers wrote: > >> Software RAID is always, in my experience, more stable than on-board >> >> "RAID" especially if you only have one OS. >> > > The only issue I have ever had with software RAID (Linux MD and LVM base > RAID), has been the boot drive. > > Without a piece of hardware to present a single LUN to the BIOS, or a BIOS > that understands the boot RAID set, booting from a degraded RAID, when the > failed device is the primary drive always requires manual BIOS intervention. > > So, if I have the spare CPU cycles/IO bandwidth available, I do like using > software RAID for the data/non-boot volumes. > > When it comes to the boot volume, other than with AIX, I have not found a > more reliable RAID other than hardware based. > > > -- > Mr. Flibble > King of the Potato People > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com
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