I stand corrected, sorry.
On Thu, March 2, 2006 11:57, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:42 -0500, xyon wrote: >> (4 X 250GB ) - (1 X 250GB) = 750GB without hotspare. Although having a >> hot-spare may be worth it. >> >> You should be able to RAID-5 /boot and all other partitions (minus swap, >> of course). As long as the RAID modules are built into the kernel and >> you >> have a functional raid config, you should be good. > No! > > Grub needs to be able to load the kernel, so you'd need to keep /boot as > normal / raid1 partition (raid1 partitions can be read without problems) > > Apart from that, as long as the partitions are all type raid autodetect > (FD?) the kernel will automatically do everything on boot. > > I have a hotspare in a 5-disk raid5, it's really neat - when a disk > fails there's a 2h window where the raid slows down a bit, then the > hotspare has taken over and you can just replace the broken disk. And at > ~100Eur for one disk it's a "free" bonus ... > > > Hope that helps, > > Patrick > -- > Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move > -- Steven McCoy Site Development/Manager IndigoRobot Services http://www.indigorobot.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
