Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-21 08:40, Andy Smith wrote: I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. how do you choose to provide redundancy for your ESP any why did you make that choice? I MBR and single 2.5" SSD's for system drives. For desktops and servers, I

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 05:44:30PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Adding CC to the debian-efi list too... ] > > Hey Andy! > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > >More of my adventures in EFI land. > > > >Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used > >to using software RAID everywhere

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Adding CC to the debian-efi list too... ] Hey Andy! Andy Smith wrote: > >More of my adventures in EFI land. > >Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used >to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for >everything. It seems that the designers of EFI didn't

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Andy Smith wrote: > c) Manually sync the ESP to another partition which can be used if >the first device dies. >An identical partition can be created on the second device and an >arrangement made to copy the real ESP to the secondary partition >every time grub-install would be

Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, More of my adventures in EFI land. Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. It seems that the designers of EFI didn't think about that one. https://www.tinkerfairy.net/efi-raid.txt