Hey, everyone, It's me again. Well, while I am still going to keep small offline drive backups for my boot drives on the servers, I have decided to replace the very small boot drives with some slightly larger RAID1 arrays. To that end, I've looked around the web for some good advice, and the best I have found matching my system configuration seems to be this howto: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/raid.htm I am a little unsure of one section, however. In the section he labels "Fix up initrd" he is suggesting I change the initrd in order to allow booting from an md array rather than a sata drive. I thought all 2.6 kernels supported booting from an array directly ( No? ). Also, both of these systems will have one PATA drive and one SATA ( seen as a "SCSI" /dev/sdx drive ) drive in the RAID 1 arrays. Does that make a difference? I will have three RAID 1 arrays: MD1 containing /boot on the first partition, MD2 containing / on the second partition, and MD3 containing the swap on the third partition of both drives. One of the systems will also have an NTFS partition on each drive for booting Windows - rarely used. I will be using grub as the bootloader. Any further advice? -- 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
