RAID

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager on Ubuntu 9.10 (or Debian)

2010, February 25 - 11:57 — müzso

http://linux.adaptec.com/2007/11/15/how-do-i-get-adaptec-storage-manager-to-work...

The link takes you to the relevant post on the Adaptec Linux blog where you can pick up all the bits necessary to make ASM work on Ubuntu/Debian. I tried to install asm_linux_x86_v5_30_17509.rpm on an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system with the Adaptec RAID 3405 controller and 4 Samsung SATA drives. Here's what worked for me ...

Mdadm Cheat Sheet

2010, February 4 - 10:56 — müzso

http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/08/mdadm-cheat-sheet/

This just the kind of help that a casual software raid (mdadm) user -like me- needs.

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Booting Linux from a software RAID + LVM combo with "/boot" on an LVM volume

2009, April 17 - 23:30 — müzso

This is something very much not trivial. Let's assume you've two (or more) disks. You create a partition with the same size on each and create a RAID volume from them. You create an LVM volume group on this RAID volume and create one (or more) logical volume(s) in it. The point is that you have the "/boot" directory in a logical volume in the RAID volume and boot the system from it.