On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:34:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it > > very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their > > servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives > > mirrored with Linux raid. > > > > I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets > > you do it, and for that you need an initrd. > > Not if they're RAID1, nor do you need a separate /boot. GRUB can load > itself and the kernel from either of the disks and the kernel will then > assemble the RAID, so you can pass root=/dev/md0 to the kernel
Silly me. I said "mirrored", I meant "striped" Ever since day 1, when I need to use those words or the RAID level numbers, I can't recall which is which. So, I usually get it wrong..... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
