Re: 12.04 Server Raid
Hi
I am certain that you can switch an installed server to raid but off the top of my head I don't know how, you may have to create the array and then move your installation into it, as far as added reliability goes, you probably want to have raid 1.
Raid level 0 would give you the combined space of two or more drives as one drive
Raid level 1 is mirroring or a running backup, where you have a pair of drives in the array and they are always identical with regard to their data. This would allow one drive to die without the server going down, in other words total redundancy.
Raid Level 5 is parity, if you've not heard this term before it basically means you have 3 or more drives and one of the is used to store data that is generated based on the data in the other two allowing you to rebuild a drives data based on knowing the method used to generate this extra data and knowing the result of this process. For example you have two drives that contain "4" and "6" respectively you add them up to get "10" store that in a third drive then drive two dies... you know you have "4" and what was lost must addd to "10" therefore you know whats missing is "6" this is more or less what raid 5 does.
Hope this helps!
Barry
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