Just installed ubuntu server with SoftRaid

[z0mbi3]

Installing using SoftRaid in Raid 1. Everything appears to be working, however I want to check that both drives are in use.. How can I check that softraid is using both of the drives correctly?

 

[LeperousDust]

softraid, do you mean mdadm?

 

[z0mbi3]

Yep that's the one.

 

[LeperousDust]

Can't remember right now and i'm on my vista machine, but check the mdadm man it tells you the switch so you can see how your raid set is doing, ie healthy or whatever...

 

[Rich43]

Try this:
richie@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid0 sda2[0] sdb1[1]
625040768 blocks 128k chunks

unused devices: <none>
richie@ubuntu:~$

 

[z0mbi3]

Cheers. I'm away from the server at the moment but I'll try that as soon as I get in.

 

[memyselfandi]

You can also try:

mdadm --detail --scan -vvv

which will give you more info on any arrays you have configured, (says he who has been setting up a new 6x500GB RAID5 array this afternoon )

 

[toothe]

why ubuntu server?

go with a proper server distro

 

[Hodders]

Like what - win 2003 SBS

I must admit I was quite impressed by ubuntu server - I liked the whol minimal bloat install thing.

I also quite liked centos as things like Dell openmanage just installed so easily.

 

[toothe]

if i remeber right ubuntu leaves many ports open and installs a lot of un-needed software by default.

take a look at performance and security of it. if its for a proper server go with centos or a bsd based distro. gentoo can make a good server depending on what you want to run.

sometimes ease of install aint the reason you get a distro and that is especially true on a server

 

[z0mbi3]

It's an internal server and the security (port wise) is definitely not an issue.

As above I've been impressed with it so far.