Forget Raid

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I was sent a good paper by John Urish in 2006 titled Software RAID-1 
> and it is VERY GOOD :-)
> 
>    It is complete and it tells me how to rewrite grub.conf, fstab and 
> initrd so my computer can boot and work with raid :-(
> 
>    Forget it. I am not this interested in RAID!

You don't need to do anything to initrd for raid-1. Since the underlying 
  partition is almost the same as a non-raid filesystem, you can pretend 
that each /boot is a stand-alone partition as far as booting goes. 
There are some tricks to make the 2nd drive boot if the 1st fails, but 
on IDE it's probably not worth the trouble because most disk failure 
modes will hang the machine until you remove it - and at that point you 
might as well swap the mirror into the 1st position, boot the rescue CD, 
and reinstall grub.  Still beats restoring from a backup and losing a 
day's work.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com