Software RAID on Debian Linux

Today i will share some thought on software RAID under linux with you. Sometimes you need to store data relative save and high available. That is where RAID solutions come in to play. Especially RAID 1 (mirroring) based solutions provide better availability of your data. But don’t forget to use backups anyway :) Some days ago i installed RAID 1 on Debian Lenny (amd64 arch) without any troubles for now. <UPD Dez 2015: Here missing reference to initial tutorial from Jerry> The Partitions used in the RAID /dev/md0/ should both enable boot flag if you want to boot from RAID....

January 11, 2010 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich