Re: redhat 6.1 RAID: what's different

[Stephen Waters]

James Manning wrote:
> 
> [ Tuesday, October  5, 1999 ] Tom Jones wrote:
> > Yes.  You can install root to a raid device during the install.  However
> > you will still need to have a /boot that is not on the raid device.
> 
> Actually, I don't believe this is the case.... With RH 6.1 you
> no longer need to keep the separate non-raid /boot
> 
> The patched lilo that comes with Red Hat 6.1 includes the (extensive)
> lilo.raid1 patch that appears to allow booting from not only s/w raid1
> but also other s/w raid's as well.  This feature was mentioned at a
> presentation of RH 6.1 last night and I was glad to hear about it :)

the lilo patch works across a stripe set??!!  that would be immensely
cool, though my skepticism meter is on "high" right now...

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stephen waters
amicus, inc.