[svlug] Lots o' disk space

[Aaron Porter]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Chris Miller
<lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu, no.  Ubuntu isn't that hot on RAID.  It took me and a launchpad
> bug report to get NVIDIA NFORCE NVRAID to work on 8.10,

Oh, excelent. Write off a distribution based on a single data point.
They were probably doing you a favor though, most consumer grade RAID
cards are a REALLY bad idea. No, worse than that. If you really want
to go down that road, make sure you buy two or three cards (or
motherboards) and make sure to keep them flashed to the exact same
firmware revision. Most of these cards will make your disks an opaque
binary blob and make recovery from a controller failure a true
exercise in agony. This can also be said of more "enterprise" cards
like 3ware and LSI at least their product lifecycles are measured in
years not weeks.

> and I'm not sure how software raid would work with Ubuntu.  I'm sure it could be
> made to work, but the whole reason of using Ubuntu is that it just sorta works
> without being told...

It works great. The only drawbacks I'm aware of are that RAID-10 is
still a "do it by hand" operation and when scripting the installer you
can still only create a single RAID volume (which can be partitioned
as you wish). If you need more than one volume, it's a by-hand
operation in your late_script or post-install.