# # Types of raid # raid0 = stripping # raid1 = mirror # # Raid Info http://www.mylex.com/solutions/aboutrdr.html # # http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/ssworld/function/raid/raid_e.html http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid # http://linas.org/linux/raid.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-raid1/ # sar ( profiling ) ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling/ monitoring ftp.bizsystems.net/pub/raid/raidcheck-1.02.tgz Encryption http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/ http://www.definitelinux.com Global FileSystem www.globalfilesystem.org http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu http://ds9a.nl authors of Logical Volume Management HOWTO http://www.inter-mezzo.org Coda http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/manual-10.html#ss10.6 InterMezzo e2fsck http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html Resize http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh/ext2resize LVM http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/lvm/ ( mirror) ftp://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/LVM ( mirror ) ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/mirrors/misc/lvm/ ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub1/lvm http://www.mtg.co.at/projects/lvm_raid_tools/ HA http://linux-ha.org http://www.henge.com/~alanr/ha http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linux-ha-dev/2000-August/000844.html Performance Tuning http://www.michaeldexter.com/redhat/redhatraid-current.htm SCSI Cases www.safte.org -- fault tolerant .procmailrc :0 w: * ^Sender:.*owner-linux-raid linux/raid ATA Raid listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list http://www.raid-advisory.com/ ---------------------------- Patches http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches http://www.redhat.com/~mingo http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ibc-ext2-raid-2.3.40-N1 ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.12pre/patch-2.2.12pre3.gz ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/lvm/aa-20000119/z-bigmem-rawio-lvm-2.2.14aa2-5.gz http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/old/ide.2.2.14 http://www.icon.fi/~mak/raid1 raid1 balancing patch http://volition.org/~tsl/raid/raid5-clean-failure.patch.gz ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/ikd/2.2.12-ikd1.gz - /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - Replace raidadd with /sbin/raidstart -a - Archives http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-raid/ - good http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/ http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-raid http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/mail_archives/linux-raid/Jul_97/0024.html # Software Raid # ------------- # http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/raid/RAID-INDEX.html # http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ # http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html # http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/HOWTO-mirror-root.html # http://teak.wiscnet.net/linux-mirror-cookbook/ # # Hardware Raid # ------------- # http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DPT-Hardware-RAID.html # http://www.dandelion.com/Linux # HowTo http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/ # Tracks, Partitions..etc http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html http://www.mylex.com/raidplus/guide/overview/ # # http://ostenfeld.dtu.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ -- moved http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ http://linas.org/linux/raid.html Boot+Root+Raid+Lilo http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/HOWTO/html_single/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-7.htm Converting non-raid into raid http://www.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-discuss/2001-August/000937.html http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1155/sam0101g/0101g.htm ftp://ftp.ddb.de/pub/linux/root_raid1_support http://www.sentinet.co.uk/raid.html http://www.linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/ ( old ) http://arf.math.metu.edu.tr/LDP/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue45/nielsen.html http://unthought.net/raidreconf/ Brackets http://www.gtweb.net/mobile-rack.html IDE http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick ide-2.2.16-20000630 http://republika.pl/bkz/ide.2.2.16-bartlomiej.patch.bz2 http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/ http://www.top101usa.com IDE RAID 1 Controller Araid99-300 Raid Cards Dell ( PERC ) PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2 http://www.dell.com/linux/config.htm http://support.dell.com/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=1365&libid=4 http://www.dell.com/products/poweredge/periph/perc.htm http://www.dell.com/products/poweredge/periph/perc2sc.htm http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9812.0/0324.html DPT2564 card -- ( working for over a year http://www.dpt.com/products/pm1564u3.html http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/dpt/files.html PM3224 PM1554U2 http://www.icp-vortex.com/ AIC 7895 -- None of the Adaptec RAID cards are supported under Linux. -- ritz@mordor.net Christopher Mauritz 15 Mar 2000 adaptec 29160N Fastrack HighPoint HPT366 IBM Netfinity 5000 with a ServeRAID card http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller DAC960PG is quite old at this point ( leonard ) http://www.mylex.com/products/dac960/drivers/filmbios.html Mylex AccelRAID -fast - i960 RISC Mylex ExtremeRAID - faster - StrongARM 233 Mylex FlashPoints are essentially software RAID and the RAID features are not supported on Linux ( leonard ) ARO1130-u2 IDE Promise Ultra66 PDC20246 and PDC20262 http://www.linux-ide.org http://www.arcoide.com/dupli-pci.htm ATA-66 IDE RAID controller ( udma33 ) http://www.tekram.com.tw/products.asp Tekram DC-600 ( discontinued ) Raid Systems IBM RaidSERVE Mylex eXtreme 1100 AccelRAID 352 DPT SmartRAID VI/PM3966U3 AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1500-H ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/MegaRaid/Drivers/linux/linux.zip ( MegaManager for maintainence ) Compaq SmartArray 221 RAID controller http://www.monolith.com. pre-configure a Linux compatible RAID server with on-site support is provided by IBM Global Services www.zero-d.com/ide2.html www.raidzone.com www.3ware.com/products/linux3ware.shtml www.thelinuxstore.com/perl-bin/index.pl?catid=66 Benchmarks http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/reschke/Linux_MD_Benchmarks/ http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html - list of tools bonnie old benchmark program http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/download.html bonnie++ updated bonnie to reflect modern hardware http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ tiotest looks promising, still being developed http://www.icon.fi/~mak/tiotest/ http://www.iki.fi/miku/tiotest/tiotest-0.23.tar.gz iozone havent tried this, but www.iozone.org shows it can do pretty graphics, and also has a long feature list. mincore() madvise() dbench http://people.redhat.com/dledford/benchmark.html ------------------------ > Redhat 6.1/2.2.16+raid-2.2.16-A0 working with Root RAID1. > > image=/boot/bzImage > label=linux > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16.RAID.img > read-only > root=/dev/md0 >