[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Garry Stahl]

Michael Mikowski wrote:
> I've been using Software RAID level 1 on Linux for about 10 years.  Its a very solid solution -- the load on the system is virtually nill, and reads are faster (writes are about the same speed, IIRC).  Look for 'mdadm' for setting it up.
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> The disk topology I've used is:
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> 1 SATA System Disk
> 2 SATA Data Disks
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> The data disks are exactly the same capacity and model.  Then I create 1 or 2 partitions on each and create RAID devices (again, see mdadm).  I mount data I care about on the RAID devices, e.g. /home.  Any system settings in /etc can be backed up to the RAID through a cronjob rsync.
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>   

About what I have on the stereo.  Except that the system disk is an
EIDE.  Only two SATA ports on the MOBO. 

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