I was wondering about the boot loader problem. Thanks. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:52:11AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: >> I hope this is an easy one. I have two drives I would like to mirror >> as my boot drive. >> 1) Should I mirror the drives, then partition the RAID device (md0)? >> 2) Should I partition the the drives then RAID the partitions? >> >> What is the best practice, and why? > > Hi Adam, > > if I understand it correctly, being a boot drive, > you'll have to install a boot loader, so you'll > need some space between the beginning of your data > (or RAID in this case) and the boot loader. > This means, as far as I know, your *only* choice > is to partition. > > Or I miss something... > > bye, > > pg > >> >> Thanks >> Adam >> -- >> 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 > > -- > > piergiorgio -- 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
