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