[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 03:27:26 UTC 2008
> you cant boot software on the RAID array.
>
I have been booting on software raid for a long time. Although I admit
my boot partition a 256 MB is raid 1. And yes all 5 to 10 drives have
the same contents. And also I install grub on them so all of them can
boot if need be...
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> Its been a while since I did software RAID. Are you doing 1 jumbo
> partition? last time I did software raid I had to recreate the
> partitions then add them to the array one at a time.
>
I call this an advantage over hardware. I mean I get my 256 MB boot
and my 50GB / back under full raid level in a less than 30 minutes
instead of waiting for hours..
John
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