On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Jon Masters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:05 -0700, solarflow99 wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Benjamin Franz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > It will boot off a RAID1 /boot partition fine. Other RAID levels - no. > >> how is that possible? it can't even load the md module to be able to >> read it. /boot always had to be on a type 83 partition > > Because RAID1 is effectively just a linear duplication in which the boot > block is unaffected and the disk contains a valid filesystem (just that > there are two copies of it on the two disks). So it happens to work if > you're doing RAID1. I've personally always done RAID1 with simply a > second bootloader on the other disk. It might not always failover if > there is a horrible physical failure and a reboot happens, but I don't > necessarily want it to if the disk has died. If it dies while running, > and it's a cheapish SATA disk, the system will probably survive.
I guess there's hardly a need to have /boot on its own partition then? maybe i've just been using LVM's too long:) It will be nice when md and lvm are combined one day with btrfs, I hope grub2 is usable then so its directly loadable as /. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
