On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Yes, but rsync and cron are there to help. But you're just papering over cracks. > In any case, I just realized it's not only initramdisk that > has to to understand and use software raid, but even > before that there's grub (or lilo.. anybody out there still use lilo > nodays?).. I suppose even legacy grub can boot from raid partition > otherwise, CentOS4's grub would not even boot. But you can freely mount read-only half of a raid1 set so grub doesn't have to understand RAID. You have to install grub on both disks, but that's it. > I hope that will give me two drives partitioned in exactly > the same way. This would be to me the greatest gain over > my solution. Yes, you should definitely be able to do that. jh