RAID devices help provide data fault tolerance for storage devices. In some RAID configurations, the read/write performance is also improved. The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System supports software RAIDs 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and 5+1.
This section describes the following:
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Section 13.1, Understanding Software RAID Devices
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Section 13.2, Planning for a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.3, Viewing a List of Software RAID Devices on a Server
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Section 13.4, Viewing Details of a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.5, Creating Software RAID Devices with iManager
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Section 13.6, Creating Software RAID Devices with NSSMU
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Section 13.7, Mirroring an Existing Pool with NSSMU
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Section 13.8, Recovering a Mirror where All Elements Report ‘Not in Sync’ Using NSSMU
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Section 13.9, Creating a RAID 1 Mirror to Duplicate Data
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Section 13.10, Creating a Software RAID 0+1 with NSSMU
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Section 13.11, Creating a Software RAID 5+1 with NSSMU
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Section 13.12, Renaming a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.13, Increasing the Size of a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.14, Restriping a Software RAID
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Section 13.15, Replacing a Failed Segment in a Software RAID
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Section 13.16, Deleting a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.17, Viewing Pools on a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.18, Viewing Partitions on a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.19, Deleting Partitions on a Software RAID Device
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Section 13.20, Managing Software RAID Devices with NSSMU