On Monday May 24, root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > You can't make a raid out of /dev/hda and > > /dev/hdb - whole > > > devices. > > > > Why not? I do it all the time. > > > > You cannot get the kernel to auto-detect the raid if it is > > made from whole devices, but I don't care much about that. > > It works for me. > > Whats the benefit of doing an Array over the whole devices? Are there > any problems, for example that you maybe cannot boot from that array? > No particular benefit. But if I want to RAID together a number of whole drives, there seems little point partitioning them first. It would certainly work either way. I choose the way that makes most sense in my situation. I often RAID1 a pair of whole devices, partition them into root/swap/rest and boot off them (this is using md partitioning code which isn't in 2.4, but is in 2.6). There is a problem here that lilo thinks it knows all about md arrays. However I figured out how to trick it into not realising they are md arrays and it works fine (I create a symlink from /dev/MD* -> /dev/md* and only tell lilo about /dev/MD*). NeilBrown > Thanks, > > Greetings, > Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
