Technical Resources

Guide to Using Software RAID in Linux
Lars Tackmann

http://randompage.org/articles/2006/01/30/using-software-raid-in-linux

This guide describes how to set up software RAID 0 on Debian Linux using four 500GB disks on the PetaBox GB2000. Most of the information presented here, however, is usable with other Linux distributions. It is also not very hardware or even RAID level specific, so it should work, with minor modifications, with most other disk setups.

Guide to Volume Management in Linux
Lars Tackmann

http://randompage.org/articles/2006/01/02/volume-management-in-linux

Volume management is a flexible storage abstraction layer which turns storage into an easily-allocatable resource that can be concatenated, re-sized, striped and combined across multiple disks and even servers. This provides numerous advantages over conventional partitioning schemes. This guide shows how easy it is to handle LVM on Debian Linux. It should work, however, on most other distributions with some minor modifications.

The guide describes how to set up the XFS filesystem on volumes in Linux using four 500GB disks on the PetaBox GB2000. The information presented, though, is not very hardware or filesystem specific, so it should work with most other disks setups.

The Software RAID HOWTO

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

This HOWTO describes how to use Software RAID under Linux. It addresses a specific version of the Software RAID layer, namely 0.90 RAID, created by Ingo Molnar and others. This is the RAID layer that is the standard in Linux-2.4, and is the version used by many Linux-2.2 kernels. 0.90 RAID support is available as patches to Linux-2.0 and Linux-2.2, and is considered far more stable that the older RAID support already in those kernels.

LILO mini-HOWTO

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

LILO is the most used Linux Loader for the x86 flavor of Linux. This guide describes some typical LILO installations and is intended as a supplement to the LILO User's Guide.