Partition of /boot of FC System

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Apr 9 15:34:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 23:24:31 +0800,
  Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> > The short answer is that raid 1 is the only kind of raid you can use for
> > /boot .
> 
> Not true.  At least not when you're using 3ware RAID controllers.   I've got
> my /boot on a RAID 5 array.  Maybe you are confusing RAID with LVM?

No.But I probably should have been more careful about what I said. Legacy grub
doesn't have raid support, so it will only work with raid 1 (where an element
of the array can be treated as if it weren't using raid for read only access)
or where the raid controller doesn't need support from grub.




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