[CentOS] Re: Anaconda doesn't support raid10

Ruslan Sivak rsivak at istandfor.com
Thu May 10 18:50:19 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>
>>> But seriously, when you need a /boot partition, it is only as useful 
>>> as the rest of the system.
>>>
>> This is true.  In this particular case, I wanted the boot partition 
>> to survive if the data disks survived.  Kinda annoying to have the 
>> data disks survive, but have to rebuild the system because the / or 
>> the /boot paritions didn't survive.
>> With 500GB drives, an extra 200MB partition hardly matters, while it 
>> will save me a lot of headaches should one or two drives fail 
>> (assuming it's the right drives, and the data partition is still there).
>
> I didn't think you were duplicating / across all 4 in the layout you 
> proposed.  Thus the questions about putting /boot there.  If your 
> /boot doesn't work you can always boot the install cd in rescue mode 
> to fix it but there's not much you can do about a missing /.
>

Originally I had boot on 2 drives raid1, with 2 more drives being 
hotspares.  Then I realized that this makes no sense, if you can just 
set up a raid1 with 4 drives (where each drive is a copy of each 
other).  Didn't really know if it was supported, but looks like it works.

Russ





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