topic Re: Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID in Operating System - Linux

Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID

Lacrosse — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:42:38 GMT

Thanks for the help

Re: Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID

RAC_1 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:51:03 GMT

I think yes. man mkraid, raidtab

Anil

Re: Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID

Serviceguard for Linux — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:54:31 GMT

Actually raidtab is "depricated" (not really used any more). mdadm is the tool for setting up and controlling raid for any of the newer distros.

Re: Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:05:33 GMT

Also you can use LVM for disk managment.
I strongly recommending you hardware RAID :)
If you realy need RAID for protection

Re: Does SUSE and RedHat come with Software RAID

dirk dierickx — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:23:55 GMT

as far as i can remember, redhat has always supported software raid. it can be set up during the installation.
software raid with these days fast processors have little overhead and will work on any ide/scsi controller linux supports. this is important because some hardware raid controllers might work, but may not pass all information to linux (of failing disks, broken mirrors etc.) and that is rather important.