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On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 23:27 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
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> you cant boot software on the RAID array.
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I have been booting on software raid for a long time. Although I admit
my boot partition a 256 MB is raid 1. And yes all 5 to 10 drives have
the same contents. And also I install grub on them so all of them can
boot if need be...
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Last time I "booted" on software RAID it was not really on the RAID. There were simply 2 exactly the same partitions on both drives that were boot. But if you removed a drive, then you had to go into BIOS to tell it to boot from the other drive because it was not truly RAID at that point. Just duplicate. Plus if you change the boot you have to remember to copy it to both drives.<BR>
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Unless the RAID driver is now somehow included in the boot manager!?<BR>
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> Its been a while since I did software RAID. Are you doing 1 jumbo
> partition? last time I did software raid I had to recreate the
> partitions then add them to the array one at a time.
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I call this an advantage over hardware. I mean I get my 256 MB boot
and my 50GB / back under full raid level in a less than 30 minutes
instead of waiting for hours..
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I don't wait for hours if the drive was properly shut down. When I did software, that took a long time too if you did not properly shut things down.<BR>
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