On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 07:34:54AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > I understand that lilo and grub only can boot partitions that look like > a normal single-drive partition. And then I understand that a plain > raid10 has a layout which is equivalent to raid1. Can such a raid10 > partition be used with grub or lilo for booting? > And would there be any advantages in this, for example better disk > utilization in the raid10 driver compared with raid? > A plain RAID-10 does _not_ have a layout equivalent to RAID-1 and _cannot_ be used for booting (well, possibly a 2-disk RAID-10 could - I'm not sure how that'd be layed out). RAID-10 uses striping as well as mirroring, and the striping breaks both grub and lilo (and, AFAIK, every other boot manager currently out there).
Cheers,
Robin
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