Quick question.

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

Quick question. Is there a decent software RAID setup for Arch that I can utilize to mirror two identical SATA drives with?

I'm looking for a RAID 1 setup for redundancy.

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@foxyloon Try mdraid, maybe? I think that's the Linux standard block device RAID

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@foxyloon There's also ZFS/btrfs raid but those are filesystem level not block device level.

[maddy@thegayagenda.fans]

@foxyloon@blimps.xyz I'd say a zfs raidz mirror, though I don't know offhand how to set that up. I've been spoiled with TrueNAS ​​

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

@IceWolf Yeah, I was previously using these in a ZFS pool in the TrueNAS server I just decommissioned. I'm not going out of my way to compile a new kernel just to enable ZFS on this machine.

I'll look into mdraid.

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@foxyloon *wagwag*

[izzy@social.shadowkat.net]

@foxyloon md / mdadm is the traditional simple way to do it. doesn't have fancy features but it's also a lot simpler than LVM, ZFS, btrfs, etc

[fish4203@tech.lgbt]

@foxyloon
Zfs is your best bet for software raid

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

@maddy These drives came out of the recently decommissioned TrueNAS box that didn't pan out for me.

So I've heard, I'd have to custom compile the kernel on this machine just to enable ZFS support, which is why I'm trying out other options this time around.

[foxyloon@blimps.xyz]

@fish4203 I'd gladly be using ZFS right now, as that's what I was recently using on them when I had that TrueNAS box going, but I'm not willing to compile a custom kernel just to have ZFS support on this machine.