Re: Removing a failing drive from multiple arrays

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:37:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have put MBR and boot partition on a USB thumb drive because the
> failure rate of a R/O flash is lower than rotating devices (in my
> experience). Use ext2 for boot, no journal so the drive works really
> read-only. Hopefully grub2 mounts the boot noatime.

Another option, although I've not done this for a long time, is PXE boot. 
You need a DHCP server giving out the correct parameters and a TFTP server
for the kernel (and ramdisk?)

Regards,

Brian.
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