How to get the most out of HD space.

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:13:52 -0500
Dave Ihnat <dihnat at dminet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:07:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You can boot from raid1 - but of course its actually booting from the one
> > disk in reality not from the mirrored set.
> 
> Ah--*software* RAID1?  At boot time, it doesn't know about /dev/mdX.

Yes. The software raid volume as /dev/sda1 or similar is understood by
the BIOS just fine, and since both have the same data works fine.