[CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

Ross S. W. Walker RWalker at medallion.com
Wed Jun 25 18:35:26 UTC 2008


Florin Andrei wrote:

> John R Pierce wrote:
> > 
> > /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it.
> 
> Wait. I thought mirror RAID is the same on-disk format like a plain 
> partition, so therefore a mirrored /boot will always boot. At 
> least, it always did for me.

Yes, default md format stores meta data at end of storage unit so it
is accessible outside of raid configuration.

-Ross

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