[linux-audio-user] Raid setup (kinda OT)

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:13:14PM -0800, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
> On a side note, is there any way I could get you to give me a bit more
> info about how you went about setting up your RAID(s)? Offlist is fine if
> it will be too offtopic. Don't worry about it if you don't want to.

First and foremost, download Neil Brown's mdadm package.  It makes
kernel software RAID a piece of cake!  (apt-get install mdadm will work
if you run Debian)

Second:
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --chunk=X --level=0 --raid-disks=2 /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2

The chunksize is an integer parameter that set how wide the stripes are
- playing with this value can change performance a lot, so definately do
some benchmarking!

*HOWEVER* - I wonder if you're not asking for a disaster.  RAID0 has no
provision of reliability.  ie, if one of those disks starts having
problems, you've lost all your data.  I would be very reluctant to use
RAID0 as permanent storage for any of my music - there's too much risk.

Let me agree with other posters that it's probably overkill, especially
considering the data loss potential.  I do my GNU/Linux recording work
to a partition that's actually a mirrored RAID1 pair (slower than a
single disk) and I've never had problems.

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Ross Vandegrift
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