Forget Raid

[Karl Larsen]

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.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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