[TriLUG] Ubuntu FakeRAID or Software?. Ll

[Derek Linz]

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Composed on a touch screen, please don't judge me.

On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:58 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any one know a good softwareRAID how-to? I've found a few on Google
>> and will use those unless some one can point me to a good definitive
>> how-to.
>
> man mdadm. It actually has really good examples at the bottom. Read
> the manual thoroughly.
>
> BTW, for performance reasons with SATA drives you probably want to set
> the stripe size to around 256k. Also don't put LVM on top of RAID
> devices *unless* you are properly aligning the start of the physical
> extents.
>
>
>> I will definitely look at the Webmin page for mdadm.
>
> i thought everyone agreed webmin was a security risk?
>
> JB
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