Re: RAID1 setup

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>
> On 1/10/23 20:20, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Official drives should be here Friday, so trying to get reading.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/9/23 01:32, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> Continuing this thread, and focusing on RAID1.
>>>>
>>>> I got an HPE Proliant gen10+ that has hardware RAID support. (can turn
>>>> it off if I want).
>>> What exact model of RAID controller is this? If it's a S100i SR Gen10
>>> then
>>> it's not hardware RAID at all.
>>
>> Yes, I found the information:
>> ============================
>> HPE Smart Array Gen10 Controllers Data Sheet.
>>
>> Software RAID
>>
>> · HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10 Software RAID
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> - HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10 SW RAID will operate in UEFI mode
>> only. For legacy support an additional controller will be needed
>>
>> - The S100i only supports Windows. For Linux users, HPE offers a
>> solution that uses in-distro open-source software to create a two-disk
>> RAID 1 boot volume. For more information visit:
>> https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/lsrrb/
>> ====================
>> I have yet to look at this url.
>
> This guide seems to answer MOST of my questions.

I didn't know this guide from HPE. What I'm not sure is how well it is
supported now for newer distributions like EL9. I could be wrong but I
think EL9 already supports setting this up out of the box without any
additional fiddling.

In my case years ago with EL7 I simply put /boot/efi on a partition on
disk 0 and another one on disk 1, like so:

/dev/nvme0n1p1         200M   12M  189M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/nvme1n1p1         200M   12M  189M   6% /boot/efi.backup

To keep the filesystems in sync I've added a hook to our package update
mechanism which simply calls this bash function:

EFISRC="/boot/efi"
EFIDEST="${EFISRC}.backup"

efisync() {
  if [ -d "${EFISRC}/EFI" -a -d "${EFIDEST}/EFI" ]; then
    rsync --archive --delete --verbose "${EFISRC}/EFI" "${EFIDEST}/"
  fi
}

If I had to install this today I'd like to put it on RAID as discussed.

Regards,
Simon

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