[sclug] Setting up SATA RAID for /home not / (Debian Lenny)

[Dickon Hood]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 16:09:15 +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
: Keith Edmunds wrote:

: ># mdadm -C /dev/md0 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 -n 2 -l 1
: ...
: ># mke2fs -j /dev/md0 (or whatever filesystem you want)
: ># mount /dev/md0 /it/goes/here

: I know it's just cosmetic, but is there a Linuxey 'standard' sort of 
: place to mount a filesystem that's going to be exported (this box is a 
: fileserver)?

Not really.  The BBC uses /content; I use /space -- it doesn't really
matter.

: >Add /dev/md0 to /etc/fstab if desired.

: OK, thanks, and thanks Dickon:

: > and you'll probably want to set the partition type to 0xfe (RAID
: > autodetect).  If you're using a Debian kernel, you'll probably want to

: > mdadm --misc --scan --brief > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

: When I installed mdadm it asked me:

: "Once the base system has booted, mdadm can start all MD arrays (RAIDs) 
: specified in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf which have not yet been started. This 
: is recommended unless multiple device (MD) support is compiled into the 
: kernel and all partitions are marked as belonging to MD arrays, with 
: type 0xfd (as those and only those will be started automatically by the 
: kernel)."

AIUI that's if it's built-in to the kernel, and not loaded as a module in
an initrd (which it almost certainly will be if you're using a distro
kernel).

: which sounds as if I don't need to set the type 0xfd ... we will see, I 
: haven't restarted the system yet, mke2fs is still cooking ...

If they're specified in mdadm.conf, you shouldn't need to type them.  I
prefer to.

It might be worth looking at ext4, BTW.  It's quite a lot more efficient
on large files.

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