fedora, dmraid, and raid5 on an nforce570

[buntz]

Hello,

I've been looking all day but still can find a definitive answer to my question. I want to build a 1.5 TB NAS with four drives in RAID 5 on a nforce 570 chipset with NVRaid running the latest Fedora distro. I plan on putting the OS on a drive not in the RAID array. I've read that I need dmraid to support my fake NVRaid. I've also read that dmraid only supports RAID 0 and 1.

So my question is can I use dmraid with NVRaid to group four disks in a RAID 5 array and use it only for data and not booting?

[bradchaus]

use linux software raid ...

[buntz]

Yeah?

so mdadm is the way to go then i guess...

[bradchaus]

Well, you can use raid 5, its fast, its reliable, and its not proprietary. All the linux tools work perfectly. Hardware raid is almost a thing of the past, the raid controllers arent as fast as your own CPU.

[buntz]

Thats a good point. Hardware controllers have been around forever. In the day and age of multiple 3 GHz cores, I guess they are kind of outdated. Cool man, thanks for the info.