I'm pretty sure you can't put the kernel on a raid 10, but you can
have a 50-100MB RAID1 (or not raid) /boot partition (on each hdd if
you wish) and then have root on raid 10 provided you compile in
support for it or use a initrd. I have used this setup successfully
without the kernel raid 10 support (older linux distro). I just have
a raid 0 on top of three raid 1's that auto assemble the raid 1's upon
boot but then have to manually assemble the raid 0 since the boot-up
procedure only does one round of raid auto-detecting.
Just required this little hack in menu.lst
title Default kernel - build2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-build2 root=/dev/md4 md=4,/dev/md1,/dev/md2,/dev/md3
Just a trick I used, makes some great vm and/or db servers. Cheers,
- A
On May 8, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
After recent issues discovered with RAID1 and failing disks, I am
contemplating alternatives to ensure more reliability.
The question that arises: Is there any way to boot a system from a
RAID10 md?
--
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
