[TriLUG] Ubuntu FakeRAID or Software

[John Brier]

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