On Sun 07 Oct 2007 06:56:36 NZDT +1300, Richard Creighton wrote: > I am running off of pure MD raid partitions > for the Linux OS including the MBR, /boot and / (root).
Me too. Safed by bacon twice already, and makes disk upgrades very painless (I only use raid for / and /home, but not /bigphat). > Version 10.2 was the first SuSE version to support installation > to MD software raid I believe. Oh no! 8.x installed / to md0 just fine, but one had to watch where yast wanted to put the boot loader (mbr always worked). While other distros were giving intricate spiels about how to boot from md raid, SuSE just did it (if you told yast mbr). Some versions 9.x were even able to install grub on each of the 2 raid1 disks. The limitation in 8.x was that yast could only create md0, but it would install on multiple mdX partitions if they already existed. The boot loader GAUs however have turned this fine piece of engineering into something not really usable by non-geeks. :(( Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
