On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:06:15PM +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> Hendrik Boom:
> ...
> > > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first
> > > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it
> > > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load
Hendrik Boom:
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> > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first
> > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it
> > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load the kernel
> > and possible an initrd/initramfs if you want it to.
>
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:20:25PM +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> Hendrik Boom:
> ...
> > lilo doesn't do RAID assemby, as far as I know. It just starts up
> > with a bunch of blocks at a fixed offset from an identified partition,
> > identified by UUID, and there's two of these. Now I guess
Hendrik Boom:
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> lilo doesn't do RAID assemby, as far as I know. It just starts up
> with a bunch of blocks at a fixed offset from an identified partition,
> identified by UUID, and there's two of these. Now I guess at boot
> time, it may always pick the right one, or always pick the wrong
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:03:53PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 25/03/2017 20:17, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> >I have two twinned RAIDs which are working just fine although the
> >second drive for both RAIDs is missing. After all, that's what it is
> >supposed to do -- work when things are
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:09:34PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
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> 3 Removing The Failed Disk
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> To remove /dev/sdb, we will mark /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 as failed and remove
> them from their respective RAID arrays (/dev/md0 and /dev/md1).
Possibly too late. My defective RAID
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 09:00:23PM +, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > I have two twinned RAIDs which are working just fine although the
> > second drive for both RAIDs is missing. After all, that's what it is
> > supposed to do -- work when things
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:17:11 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> If I were to manage to reconnect the absent drive, how would the
> boot-time RAID assembly work? (/boot is on the RAID). Would it be
> able to figure out which of the two drives is up-to-date, and
> therefore
I have two twinned RAIDs which are working just fine although the
second drive for both RAIDs is missing. After all, that's what it is
supposed to do -- work when things are broken..
The RAIDs are mdadm-style Linux software RAIDs. One contains a /boot
partition; the other an LVM partition