[PVE-User] pve 0.9b2 software-raid

[Martin Maurer]

Hi again,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Gregor Perner
> Sent: Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008 12:51
> To: Martin Maurer
> Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] pve 0.9b2 software-raid
> 
> Martin Maurer schrieb:
> > Software Raid is not supported and makes no sense for Proxmox VE.
> 
> I obviously don't agree with you on that. In my expirience a cheap
> RAID-Controller is in the end more costly than a good/expensive one.

[Martin Maurer] 
No one should use a cheap Raid controllers, I recommend always using the best hardware available if you go for virtualization - this is the recommendation of all virtualizations software vendors/companies.

> For
> this reason I settled with SW-Raid (for low-end testing, deployment
> testing,  crash-recovery testing, ...) where no good Controller is
> covered by the budget.
> SW-Raid is well tested and supported OOTB by the Linux-Kernel.
> 
> I don't see any big problems in adding mdadm to the initrd except for
> the kernel-package[0] itself. Up to this point I didn't manage to build
> an unmodified (!) pve-kernel-package.
> I understand there will be a release this week, so I would appreciate
> the next kernel-source-package to be more buildable (and/or instructions
> to set up a working build-environment).

[Martin Maurer] 
Yes, 1.0 will hopefully ready this week, including more instructions for your needs.

But again: Software Raid makes no sense for Proxmox VE project and you will save time if you go for a hardware raid - now and in future of Proxmox VE.
Thanks for sharing your experiences,

Br, martin

> 
> Best Regards,
> gregor
> 
> [0] ftp://pve.proxmox.com/sources/pve-kernel-2.6.24-3.tar.gz
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