On Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 12:19:23PM +0200, lfmarante@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hello every body. > > I have a question in regard of booting linux under a raid 5. It is possible ? > All the guides that I found on the net say to have a /boot not stripped, (raid1 > is ok). [EX: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > ] > That's correct, yes. Grub looks at the individual partition, so needs to see a full filesystem on there. > They say to have / not stripped too. And these guide show to have an raid 1 boot > and / and create a LVM volume for /usr /opt /var /whatever that can be raid 5. > It is not easiest to have directly / in raid 5 format ? > If it's possible I would prefere to have raid 5 / > There's certainly no problem with / being RAID-5 (or any other RAID format). You'll need the necessary RAID modules either built into the kernel or in the initrd of course. > There any particular configuration for grub to boot it? > Not for RAID-1, no. You just point grub at the raw partition (rather than the array) and it'll treat it as a non-RAID disk and be quite happy. HTH, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" |
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