[Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node
Matt Lawrence
matt at technoronin.com
Sun Apr 12 10:53:09 PDT 2009
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Залетнев Дмитрий wrote:
> I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll
> connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and
> install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux?
Sure it is. The only issue you may run into is that the partition
containing /boot can't be on software RAID, grub & lilo don't know how to
deal with RAID partitions. My solution has been to put /boot on Compact
Flash that is plugged into the motherboard IDE connector via a $5 adapter
card.
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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