Obviously you don't gain any benefit for the kernel if it's smaller than
the RAID-0 chunk size, so there's little point in having it RAIDed that
way (since RAID-0 is a speed hack only). With RAID-5, I don't guess
it'd be bootable once that first drive's gone, so that kills any benefit
you'd get from RAID-5ing /boot. All in all I suppose the option of
creating a RAID-1 for /boot is still the only real redundancy option for
an otherwise RAID-5 system and there's obviously little point in
including /boot in a LINEAR or RAID-0 array since there's be no benefit
gained. Answers my question, I guess.
--
Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
Network Engineer http://www.trendcmhs.org
The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily
represent those of Trend CMHS or Trend Foundation.
"I program my homecomputer; beam myself into
the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981
> ----------
> From: David Cooley[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:21 PM
> To: Stanley, Jeremy; Linux-Raid
> Subject: Re: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]
>
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> It sounds feasable, but you'd lose the benefits of raid if one file
> was in
> one chunk... that drive goes and any files smaller than one chunk on
> that
> drive are history
>
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