On 03/07/2013 06:40 PM, 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.
> have you been putting /boot on a mdraid? that's what the article is
> recommending against.
>
> I've always put a static boot on each drive, then made the REST of the
> drive a mdraid mirror and put a LVM in it. all that needs to be done
> is to rsync the primary /boot with the backup following any kernel updates.
>
>
Yes, I have /boot on /dev/md0 many times. Some distros (anacondas) give great problem with this. For those I just
create entire filesystem outside of anaconda and then tell it to use an existing Linux. Works fine.
Gerry
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