Greg Freemyer wrote: > Before you totally commit to software raid think about what happens > with a drive failure or if you need to boot the SUSE DVD into rescue > mode. > > I don't actually know the answers, but those are always my concerns > with software raid. It works with no problems. I presently boot from a software raid 1 here at home (PATA) and at the office (SATA). The 10.2 rescue system works without a problem (though I did have problems with the rescue system in 10.1 and the raid). When I was running 10.1, I had to use my 9.3 DVD's rescue system, which worked fine as well. > > ie. For booting software raid does not normally provide any tolerance, > and for rescue mode issues I just get nervous. Booting period is intolerant of mistakes. I haven't found any difference with running the raid. I initially ran a boot partition, but haven't now for quite a while. > > Basically I don't mind software raid for non-boot drives, but for boot > drives I have always avoided it. > I have read that later versions of GRUB will natively support software raid.
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