On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:37 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > It really is as simple as an fdisk and mdadm command for the case > > where it isn't a boot drive and the other mirror member is still > > good. > > that's the theory. your caveats are noteworthy tho; I've been bitten by > them, and that's one of the reasons I don't like software RAID. with a 3ware > controller, there's no worry about the bootability of whichever drive is > left in the array.
Booting from software raid is a special case in that it really just uses one member so there are some quirks about getting the boot loader installed on both drives and configured to match the bios concept of which drive it is. My approach here is to not worry about it as a special case but keep a boot/install CD around to fix things after the fact like you would any other problem that requires a re-install of grub. The tradeoff is that the drives can be moved to any PC with standard controller or stuck in an external USB/firewire case. I haven't tried that with a disk pulled out of a 3ware set but I'd be surprised if it works. In any case, I like to have the backuppc archive on its own separate partition and it usually takes the whole disk so booting from raid is really a different issue. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
