Originally Posted By: andy
On that subject does any one know if any of the Linux distributions treat RAID as a first class citizen yet ?

Last time I installed a RAID box 18 months ago none of the distributions made RAID easy during installation. I tried to take a look at the latest Ubuntu installer the other day to see if things had improved, but it kept crashing as it loaded the kernel on the two machines I tried it on.


I setup my Linux RAID 5 array with ArchLinux about 15 - 16 months ago. I tried Debian, RedHat, and Ubuntu and they all just had different issues getting them installed or getting Samba working.

Just last month I installed ArchLinux at work. I used this wiki to setup a software raid mirror on the machine. When I setup the machine last month the installer didn't have options for setting up the raid volumes. Following the wiki I was able to get the machine setup in about two hours while stopping to talk to clients on the phone.
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Chad