On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> 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. > > have you been putting /boot on a mdraid? that's what the article is > recommending against. I've put /boot on md raid1 on a lot of machines (always drives small enough to be MBR based) and never had any problem with the partition looking enough like a native one for grub to boot it. The worst thing I've seen about it is that some machines change their idea of bios disk 0 and 1 when the first one fails, so your grub setup might be wrong even after you do it on the 2nd disk - and that would be the same with/without raid. As long as you are prepared to boot from a rescue disk you can fix it easily anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com