Suffer any software raid problem before? Suddenly a hard drive failed to work as normal? This post is about how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux Software RAID1 array, and how to add a new hard disk Continue reading
Back in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, computer information servers were encountering a dramatic increase in the amount of data they needed to serve and store. Storage technologies were getting very expensive to place a large number of high Continue reading
In this tutorial my system had two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb which are identical in size. /dev/sdb is currently unused, and /dev/sda has the following partitions: * /dev/sda1: /boot partition, ext4; * /dev/sda2: swap; * /dev/sda3: / partition, ext4 Continue reading
Creating, assembling and rebuilding small array is fine. But, things started to get nasty when you try to rebuild or resync large size array. You may get frustrated when you see it is going to take 24 hours to rebuild Continue reading
I really prefer software raid than fake raid / onboard raid controller on linux. Because i have seen arguments as to why software raid is faster and more flexible, and the best reason is that software raid is far more Continue reading
Anyone had an experienced that when you are using software raid on linux, after all had been setup, when you pull out the second port hard drive and it does not boot up! The reason the second hard drive can Continue reading