On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco > <Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch> wrote: >> >> for quite some time (since 5.x era) i use >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 >> (with 6.x i don't even need the patch to mkinitrd) >> >> the mbr or whatever it is is written in /dev/md_d0 .. and thats it >> in bios you put both hdd to boot and if the first have a problem the >> second will boot, mail you that you have a degraded raid and start >> resync after you replaced the drive. (and you can do it live) >> > > Does that all work the same for drives > 2 TB? i have no idea .. it should .. my use cases at work are the boot drives (all under 500 GB) and home (but i have no hdd > 2 TB) basically it is a raid over a block device so it does/should not matter what you write into it... HTH, Adrian