<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Matt Nelson <<a href="mailto:matt@frozenatom.com">matt@frozenatom.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My original 6 drives running a software raid created using mdadm on fedora 6 has been migrated through 2 servers, and 3 different installs, with no problems, it just came up and mounted with absolutely no problems. Which is what lead me to create this discussion; I did not know if I was just lucky, and after growing in size, I wanted to find out if I needed to do things different in the future. After reading all of your comments and links to documentation, etc I have concluded that I am on the right path with Linux-based software raid, for my home use.<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>I agree. The flexibility of the SW raid is unmatched. The file server has been running since Mar '05. It started as 3x300, and since then I have added more 3 more drives to that array, to bring the total to 6x300, In that time I have also replaced 2 drives to failures. Now I am running an additional array, 3x750 solely for myth recordings.