10.04 and RAID?

[Alan McKay]

> The thing about RAID arrays/partitions getting corrupted is due to the
> Ubuntu installer so so long as you do not use that to perform an install
> to 'upgrade' you should be safe.

OK, I'm looking at this RAID stuff myself now, and am wondering what I
should do.

I'll revive an old thread instead of starting a new one.

My scenario is that I'm finally about to redo my home file server -
I've been running FreeBSD on it for years now.  I ordered some new
hardware, and when it comes in I'll be installing Linux and starting
to migrate.   I'm getting 4 x 1.5TB HDs and want to make a RAID10 out
of them.  Originally I'd been considering CentOS since that is what I
know best.  I use it at work and it was really easy to set up a RAID10
like this with the installer in 5.4.   But I've been very happy with
Ubuntu desktop at home for the last 6 or 8 months, and was thinking of
running Ubuntu server on my new machine.

But the more I'm reading, the more worried I am.   I just need this to
work.  Period.  That's why I like CentOS.   Ubuntu seems to be more
the foreskin of technology (:-)) and maybe not the smartest choice for
my home file server which basically just needs to be reliable (and
also run MySQL and Apache2 - neither of which require the latest and
greatest versions)

I really want to dig more deeply into Ubuntu - mainly for the sake of
having it on my resume.   But if it would be even just slightly less
reliable than CentOS in this regard then it is a no-brainer for me -
go with CentOS

thoughts?


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