On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:00:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > > There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume > > > > > > I doubt that :-) > > > > Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with > > /boot *not* on a separate partition? > > > > Or does grub understand linux raid these days? > > well, you just put boot on a seperate partition. is there any good reason > not to do so?
No, of course not :-) But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux raid. I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Besides, we're talking about what's possible, whether it's good or bad isn't part of the topic. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
