On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 07:34:54AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> I understand that lilo and grub only can boot partitions that look like
> a normal single-drive partition. And then I understand that a plain
> raid10 has a layout which is equivalent to raid1. Can such a raid10
> partition be used with grub or lilo for booting?
> And would there be any advantages in this, for example better disk
> utilization in the raid10 driver compared with raid?
>
A plain RAID-10 does _not_ have a layout equivalent to RAID-1 and
_cannot_ be used for booting (well, possibly a 2-disk RAID-10 could -
I'm not sure how that'd be layed out). RAID-10 uses striping as well as
mirroring, and the striping breaks both grub and lilo (and, AFAIK, every
other boot manager currently out there).
Cheers,
Robin
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