On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:52:11PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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? > > > > I don't know about you, but my /boot goes with zero use between boots, > efficiency and performance improvements strike as a distinction without > a difference, while adding complexity without benefit is always a bad idea. > > I suggest that you avoid having a "learning experience" and stick with > raid1. I agree with you, it was only a theoretical question. Best regards keld - 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