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I haven't. I had set up the machine with 2 large spindle drives, 2 large SSDs, and a separate SSD for the OS. after booting windows looked at the disk layout a
by bruce511 5y ago
I haven't. I had set up the machine with 2 large spindle drives, 2 large SSDs, and a separate SSD for the OS.
after booting windows looked at the disk layout and asked me what I planned to do. It suggested some quick options, one of which was exactly what I planned to do (raid the spindle pair, and raid the SSD pair) and one even better (create a volume putting the SSD and spindle together, and then raid that.)
Yes thanks I said, and it did everything. By contrast setting up raid on the previous Linux box, albeit 5 years earlier) took days of searching for docs, specific magic incantations on the command line, and lots of rebooting.
So yes, I get the freedom thing, but sometimes a computer is just a tool, and I want it to just work.
- michaelmrose 5y agoIf I recall correctly Fedora in the 2003 - 2006 era included an option to set up raid as part of the standard installer. Around the same time frame gnomes disk tool supported actually doing operations like replacing a disk in that array. Even the incantation to do it manually isn't that magic. I'm guessing you could read the manual for the options to mdadm --create in minuted rather than days. If you want to be really fancy zpool create mirror foo mirror bar.