[TriLUG] SATA and Linux RAID

[Jason Tower]

i would suggest not doing this.  if the motherboard fails and you toss 
the drives in another machine you'll quite possibly be screwed.  if you 
want inexpensive raid, do it in software.  if you want multi-level 
backups to disk, use rsync and rsback.

jason

Warren Myers wrote:
> If you're running a motherboard that supports it, I'd go for RAID through 
> the BIOS. The nVidia nForce 4 chipsets have a nice RAID feature, that will 
> even extend across the SATA, SATA II, and IDE channels.
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> WMM
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> On 7/22/05, Dean Price <deano at price4.org> wrote:
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>>I am preparing to build a Linux SMB file server
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>>the OS will go on the IDE drive
>>two 250GB SATA drives will be used for the data
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>>The shop this box is going into will be closed (no work) over night.
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>>My question is this
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>>Would it be best ( more effiecient ) to create a linux raid mirror with
>>the two drives.
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>>or
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>>set the drives up static (sda1 and sdb1) and create a cron job the will
>>dd sda to sdb.
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>>Thoughts and comments please.
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>>Thank You,
>>Dean Price
>>deano at price4.org
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