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El 2007-04-05 a las 23:07 -0400, Larry Stotler escribió:
(you forgot to email to the list)
> On 4/5/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With any type of raid, any level?
> > I can understand this working with a mirror set: the kernel can load from
> > any one side. But what about level 5, for instance? There is no single
> > driver from which to load the kernel, you have to read from the three in
> > the precise order.
(I meant drive, not driver)
>
> With initrd, it shouldn't matter. The initrd ramdisk is small and
> loaded first, but probably should be on the first disk, since you have
> to specify a partition. That's why I never liked software RAID.
In my understanding, it would matter, because to read the initrd you need
to be able to read the array. It would only work if grub code is able to
read from a raid 5 unaided (both the kernel and initrd have to be read and
loaded by the bootloader).
> Further, with an LVM, if you lose the first drive, then(from my
> understanding), you can't get any data off the other drives. That's
> why I don't use it.
Dunno about that.
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Saludos
Carlos E.R.
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