On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Administrator TOOTAI wrote: > > >Craig Guy a écrit : > > > >>Are you using raid for performance or redundancy? Software raid is nice > >>except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. > >>I > >>guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or something. > > > > > >If you're using GRUB, fallback option allow you to boot on another boot > >partition if first failed. > > Yes, and if you don't get to GRUB, what do you do? > > I very much prefer a Linux software raid setup myself, but you are > depending on the quirks of your BIOS if your primary boot drive dies.
Not really. When you run lilo on your raid1 boot partition it updates the MBR on _both_ drives which are thus equally capable of booting you back into your raid (1 or 5) root partition. -- The Information Revolution will be fought on the command line. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users