You can specify as many copies in a mirror as you like (as far as I
know--haven't tried it yet). Thought I saw it in the FAQ... Any
takers?
--
Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
Network Engineer http://www.trendcmhs.org
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the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981
> ----------
> From: James Manning[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Booting Root RAID 1 Directly _Is_ Possible
>
> > This does open RAID-5 systems up for a full-redundancy solution with
> > little loss in capacity... Allocate the first 5 or 10MB on each
> drive
> > in your array for /boot as an n-way RAID-1 mirror and write LILO to
> the
> > MBR of each.
>
> Most excellent approach! Not that it much matters, as you can simply
> leave a disk out, but can you do a raid1 with an odd number of drives?
> Just wondering. This certainly solves most of the major headaches...
> Combined with a lilo/grub howto for booting raid1, this could
> certainly
> make a lot more linux machines out there fully redundant :)
>
> Speaking of which, I didn't notice any feedback.. was it going to be
> possible that lilo do something like "disk /dev/md0\n
> geometry=/dev/sda"
> so lilo could just fetch the geometry from a physical device, avoiding
> the md lack of getgeometry() and keeping disk stanzas simple?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
> --
> Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
>
