[NTLUG:Discuss] Software RAID under 2.6 kernel -- mirroring disks v. partitions (MD only does latter)

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Bryan,
  Thank you for the detailed response.  About the CF card, I had planned
to make it read only.  It is pretty rarely that I change the /boot
filesystem.  The eventual system is going to be a small computer and we
barely have room for two hard drives.  That is why I was using the CF
card at all.  I am a little concerned about its reliability, even as
read only.  For now, it is an interesting experiment and I'll hopefully
let it run for a while and see how it does.
  I had not considered any of the other issues you raised, so I see I
have several more new things I need to do before I should expect
success.  I think you gave me a good start.
Good day,
Ralph

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:26, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Remember.  When using the volume management of any OS, you are _only_
> mirroring _volumes_ (partitions), not _drives_.  That means the MBR and
> bootstrap are _not_ being replicated.  You have to do that manually (I
> used to with a modified LILO script).
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