Forget Raid
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 16 21:58:51 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
The guys paper assured me that I will not boot again without all
those changes if I make my current partition fd. There is so much yes
and no about things I can't and do not want to learn by bitter experience.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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