Les Mikesell wrote:
Ruslan Sivak wrote:
But seriously, when you need a /boot partition, it is only as useful
as the rest of the system.
This is true. In this particular case, I wanted the boot partition
to survive if the data disks survived. Kinda annoying to have the
data disks survive, but have to rebuild the system because the / or
the /boot paritions didn't survive.
With 500GB drives, an extra 200MB partition hardly matters, while it
will save me a lot of headaches should one or two drives fail
(assuming it's the right drives, and the data partition is still there).
I didn't think you were duplicating / across all 4 in the layout you
proposed. Thus the questions about putting /boot there. If your
/boot doesn't work you can always boot the install cd in rescue mode
to fix it but there's not much you can do about a missing /.
Originally I had boot on 2 drives raid1, with 2 more drives being
hotspares. Then I realized that this makes no sense, if you can just
set up a raid1 with 4 drives (where each drive is a copy of each
other). Didn't really know if it was supported, but looks like it works.
Russ
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