Tag: software raid
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MDADM caching
At the request of a friend I’m doing a piece on mdadm (software raid) with caching. Long story short, Raid 4 / 5 / 6 allows using a disk for caching purposes (the disk can be a software raid) To create the array one would run the mdadm command like so: mdadm –create /dev/md0 –level=5…
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Full disk encryption on software RAID with GPT partitions on Gentoo
Ever since I discovered the concept of full disk encryption (which happened to be when i had long hair and no job) I had this fetish of storing and running my stuff in a secure environment (think spy sh*t). The logic/reasoning behind full disk encryption is to limit someone’s access to your data in case…