Ruslan Sivak wrote: > Feizhou wrote: >> Andreas Micklei wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb Feizhou: >>>> So there really is no point in making /boot survive the loss of one of >>>> of the other raid1 arrays. >>> >>> Really depends on what you have on your boot partition. ;-) >>> >> >> You mean in the initrd images :D >> >> 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). Your minimum data and system disks are two. One from each mirror. So if you put /boot on either pair, you will always have a working /boot and working data/system access. There is absolutely no point in having /boot on all four disks. You do not get any benefit at all.