Am 2015-03-13 um 15:11 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid
having to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID
device.
% mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2
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On 12.03.2015 19:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
On 12.03.2015 18:28, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:12:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3
missing disks. Then add sdb2,
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:38:15 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3
missing disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the
contents of sda2 will be replicated to them.
the
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having
to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device.
% mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2
(rw,noatime,stripe=4)
/boot is my vfat
Am 2015-03-13 um 09:59 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having
to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device.
% mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2
(rw,noatime,stripe=4)
/boot is my vfat ESP here .. no ext2 ...
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On 11.03.2015 23:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?
That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box
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On 12.03.2015 17:48, Neil Bothwick wrote:
c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 missing
disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the contents of sda2
will be replicated to them.
the array formatted as vfat (- ESP) ?
will
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:12:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 missing
disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the contents of sda2
will be replicated to them.
the array formatted as vfat (- ESP) ?
sda2 is already formatted
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:30:45 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I now have a dedicated ESP on /dev/sda2 (non-RAID) and it boots via
gummiboot (- UEFI).
I now wonder if I could
(a) create a RAID1 over /dev/sd[abcd]2 and format it as vfat ESP
or
(b) clone /dev/sda2 - format each
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On 12.03.2015 18:28, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:12:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3
missing disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the
contents of sda2 will be
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On 11.03.2015 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to
get that box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the
rootfs-raid etc etc ... - fun
I found this with a LUKS root filesystem, dracut
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:52:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still
access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your
computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the
array, so all updates are
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?
That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as
FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs
RAID and
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Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?
That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as
FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs
RAID and it works well.
I will
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:45:54 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client.
It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting
it up.
GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger
partitions of type
greetings again
yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client.
It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting
it up.
GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger
partitions of type fd=raid for creating 2 mdadm-raids (rootfs and data)
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