[CentOS] raid 1 question

Steve Thompson

smt at vgersoft.com
Thu Mar 7 23:46:58 UTC 2013


On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 3/7/2013 3:35 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Dave, I've been using software raid with every type of RedHat distro 
>> RH/CentOS/Fedora for over 10 years without any serious difficulties. 
>> I don't quite understand the logic in all these negative statements 
>> about software raid on that wiki page.  The worst I get into is I have 
>> to boot from a bootdisk if the MBR gets corrupted for any reason.  No 
>> big deal.  Just rerun grub.

+1

> have you been putting /boot on a mdraid?  that's what the article is
> recommending against.

I don't understand why. As long as you remember to install grub on each 
drive you're good to go.

Steve



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