On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, steve rader wrote:
> > From: Lucio Godoy
> > I would like to setup raid1 on my system as follow:
> > Hda is partitioned as follow:
> > hda1 /swap
> > hda2 /
> > and HDC is partitioned the same way, both disks are the same size and
> > make.
> > I like to mirror /dev/hda2 on /dev/hdc2
>
> Are you really sure?! =;)
>
> I've done a fair bit of investigation into mirroring root and
> it's certainly not for the faint at heart. No offense to the
> fine code warrors on this list, but I don't think mirroring root
> is super ready for prime time yet. But, gee, I can't think
> of *any* Unix that has a very good implementation of software
Sun is capable of mirrioring the root file system. It although is only
raid1 you cannot have a raid5 root.
> mirroring of root. (Maybe the newest AIX?)
>
> Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has a recipe that appears to be
> "workable" with slackware. See the email archive msg
> from Feb 5th 1999 with Subject "Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2"
>
[snip]
I have been running a root raid system for a while now.
using the .90 patches with the auto-initialization features it is possible
to get a system to boot up and mount root on /dev/md0. There are 2
problems at this time:
1) you cannot create a raid partition from a non raid partition. So you
end up having to use an extra disk or partition to create the system.
2) lilo or other boot loaders may have some problems with booting from a
list of drives. So that if the main disk is un-bootable a secondary
disk will be used to boot from. This is in some ways less an issue with
lilo and more an issue with the BIOS.
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