RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks. A Storage technology to provide redundancy and performance, to reduce I/O bottlenecks involved in using multiple disks for large storage.
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Can I mount a microsoft mirrored dynamic disk?
I'm testing out sw raid in windows 7, but I almost always use linux and I would like to know if it's possible to mount such a mirrored dynamic disk.
I can already mount each members separatly but ...
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cleaning /dev/md0 filesystem ( raid)
I have a CentOS server using raid.
The /proc/partitions contains:
major minor #blocks name
8 0 976762584 sda
8 1 104391 sda1
8 2 921600855 sda2
8 3 55054755 ...
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How to rebuild a two drive raid 1 array on Linux?
I need to rebuild a two drive (160x2) raid 1 (mirror) array. It was an Intel raid from a 7 year old Dell computer (Windows). Both drives are assumed to be functioning. The raid was created with an ...
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Fresh installation of debian and raid10 array with SSD and HDD
I have one 120Gb SDD and four 2Tb HDD at disposal. I would like to install Debian Squeeze on the SSD and create a software RAID10 array with the four HDD.
According to your experience, how to ...
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Disable RAID auto detect at runtime
In Linux, I'm partitioning two disks for RAID1 with fdisk. The first disk partitioning succedes, but the second fail because the raid starts automatically and occupy also the second disk (why? it ...
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Bad superblock after server crash
My server (CentOS 6) crashed, and it now kernel panics on boot. It's currently using a mdadm RAID1 array with two 1TB drives.
vg_server2422-LogVol01 is /
vg_server2422-LogVol00 is Swap
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Media server RAID difficulties (on FreeNAS)
Disclaimer: I've never used FreeNAS or any type of RAID before, so this is a first.
I've decided to build a media server in my new apartment. I'm going to be going with a total 10TB of space (6x2TB ...
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Software raid checksumming slow
On my new 24 disk array I get 900 MB/s of raw read or write using dd to all the disks.
When I set the disks up as a 24 disk RAID6 I get 400 MB/s write and 600 MB/s read. It seems to be due to ...
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Linux Mint installer does not see fakeraid drive
I have a computer with a fakeraid 0 array (the computer came with it, and I don't want to remove my other OS to get rid of it), and I am trying to install Linux Mint. When I first boot up from the ...
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Installing 12.04LTS Server on a Fake RAID10
Scenario
Install Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server on a RAID10 with boot on a RAID1.
4 - 2Tb SATA Hard Drives
3 Partitions (/boot, /, and swap)
boot (256Mb from each disk) setup in RAID1 /dev/md0
partition ...
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What chunk size for KVM under Debian linux is optimal with RAID 5?
I would like to know, how to set optimal chunk size for my debian squeeze in future.
I Work with 3x WD RE4 500Gb 7200RPM in SW-RAID 5, under debian squeeze. (in the future maybe under wheezy)
I Saw ...
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Dual/Triple Booting with dmraid and non-raid disk
I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer
The first two disks are in a RAID-1 array, using an Intel P55 chipset, and accessed through dmraid, with the third drive partitioned like so:
Filesystem ...
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Intel Z68 chipset raid5 disappeared
I have this motherboard, it's a gigabyte Intel Z68 chipset. I used the Intel chipset configuration (between BIOS and OS) to configure a 3 disk Raid5 array which I formatted as NTFS (Linux already has ...
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Using device node of host bus adapter to send ioctl calls to monitor RAID status
I am interested in determining the status of a RAID array on my system (using Debian, and Intel ICH10R sata RAID controller = fakeRAID). What I have learned so far is that:
I can use CSMI I/O ...
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How do I set up raid0 using extra two drives (not the install drive)?
I have been looking around online for a suitable tutorial to help me set up a raid0 across two (or more) drives, but not moving the actual installation of Mint onto that raid setup (I have that on a ...
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FS corruption just a coincidence?
Yesterday I replaced one of the HDDs in my remote server. The setup is simple - Debian Linux (testing), software RAID 5, LVM with 4 partitions on it, home, var, usr, and swap.
I pulled the old disk, ...
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RAID Drivers and Support for an AMD SB950 Chip?
I have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2 motherboard which uses the AMD SB950 chipset to create a fakeRAID array (setup for RAID 5 in my case). It is recognized as a RAID array in Windows after install of ...
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Adaptec 2610SA (RAID controller) is not detected by Debian Squeeze 6.0.6 installer. What to do?
Big problem. I have a Gigabyte GA230CD with intel atom 230 and 3 WD RE4 disks. Problem is, that any disks connected to the Adaptec 2610sa RAID controller cannot be seen in Debian Squeeze installer.
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