“Today we’ll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in
our RAID 10 array. We’ll make it bigger, smaller, safely test
failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure
notifications.“In part 2 of this series we learned how to create a RAID 10
array during a clean, new Kubuntu installation. The same method
works with all the *buntus, Debian and CentOS 5.1. However, there
is an even easier way–the Fedora 8 Anaconda installer supports
RAID 10, and it recognizes existing RAID and LVM volumes without
having to resort to the hacks we used last week. In fact the Fedora
8 graphical installer is sleek and fast; in my opinion the best of
the batch. The graphical installers in CentOS 5.1 and Debian Lenny
tie for second place, and Lenny’s installer includes buttons for
taking screenshots…”