Hello,
I have just set up a new web server with two drives each configured with
four identical partitions. The three "non-swap" partitions are all set up
as RAID level 1 mirrors. Everything is up and running fine.
md0 = /
md1 = /home
md2 = /usr
I physically removed each of the drives at different times and was very
happy to see that each one booted and ran fine individually. This was my
goal. I like this apparent level of fault tolerance. However, I am
concerned about the performance hit.
After doing more reading and lurking on this maillist, I'm starting to get
the idea that having the /root or /boot partition on a RAID is not
advisable. Some older FAQs say that you can't upgrade the kernel with this
configuration. Is that still true? I would like to understand better why
this not an advisable configuration.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks...David
