[Tfug] RAID on LVM (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux)

[Claude Rubinson]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:54:26PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> Other than kernel and initrd issues, I haven't had any problems with this
> setup.  That said, I did this for safety and haven't actually had to *test*
> that safety yet.  Despite the many years I have used computers, since I was a
> little kid, I have never had a single HD die on me.  Even ancient "hardcards"
> and MFM drives where you can hear the heads moving about.  So it's possible
> the recovery process may be no walk in the park.
> 
> ???  What was that noise?

You really need to test your setup to make sure that it works.  Same
as with backups.  I assume that I'm not the only one who's gone to
recover something from backup only to discover that his backup script
was flawed?

For ways of simulating a raid drive failure, see:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3

C.