[CentOS] md raid 10

Wed Mar 7 18:41:32 UTC 2012
Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>

On 7.3.2012 19:08, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Ross Walker wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM, William Warren
>>> <hescominsoon-dGSttIWD7Blt2rXhg/qq1LELw3D7xbbmMrMQPFiV5cM at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> well ubuntu allows me to boot from MD RAID10...so there's something
>>>> they are doing that allows that to boot.
>>>
>>> That ubuntu version has probably switched to grub2.  Good luck
>>> debugging it when it breaks - it is very different.
>>
>> Plus it is very handy to have a /boot that is readable/mountable without
>> LVM or MDRAID drivers loaded and configured.
>>
>> /boot is only 256-512MB partition that is read only during boot and
>> updated only when there is a new kernel, so it ain't no big thing. Even
>> when RH goes to grub2 I think I'll keep this setup by default.
> 
> Don't make it less than 512M - we're debating between 512M and 1G here.

You may have noticed that redhat recommends 250M
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html

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Kind Regards, Markus Falb

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