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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Tony Smith said:
> On Thursday 26 June 2003 9:48 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> RAID support!  ;)  We should have 'raidtools' installed on the ISO as
>> well
>> as the install script able to format and mount /dev/md<x> (for software
>> RAID, not sure what hardware RAID lists as).
>
> Installing EVMS gets you free support for MD too as well as a whole bunch
> of
> other stuff (bad block relocation, file system snapshots, LVM etc. etc.).
> I
> use it (v1.2.1) heavily and swear by it.
>
> Hardware RAID doesn't require us to do anything - it's done in the
> hardware
> :-). So the devices just appear to the kernel as SCSI or IDE disks.
>
> Tony

Do we have a spell for evms (I don't believe so)?  If not, anyone care to
write one (Tony, you may have the most knowledge of it, if you have the
time...)?

If we do have/get a package for EVMS, perhaps we should have that on the
ISO instead of raidtools (or would we still need raidtools)?

-sandalle

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