Software RAID setup at install...

[Martin Stone]

jludwig wrote:
> Holler if I'm wrong, but;
> Software raid is not a hardware raid. This means the kernel amd the
> proper module(s) must load to access the raid drive. Therefore a
> software raid cannot be /boot or / since these must be available at
> boot. 
> Now it may be possible to have GRUB load the modules but the kernel must
> still be available.

Well, I was reading a page by some guy who was using a RAID 1 software mirror 
for /boot - I was interested but wasn't sure it would be a safe or preferred way 
to do things.  I am not sure how md works exactly, but intuitively if you have a 
md mirror with an ext3 filesystem on it, shouldn't each mirror component have a 
valid ext3 fs on it?  What I always did was just create /boot fs'es on 2 drives 
and try to keep them in sync... but the md mirrored /boot idea is interesting.