Install questions with RAID

Alex mysqlstudent at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 01:49:34 UTC 2011


Hi,
I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk
installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I
don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions.
I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server.

I understand RAID isn't supported on the boot device.  Am I forced to
install the boot loader on only one disk? What if that one disk
becomes inaccessible?

If I have one partition on one disk that isn't part of a RAID volume,
it's really going to make partitioning and general disk setup much
more difficult, because all other partitions on all other disks will
be part of a RAID5 volume.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex


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