On 9/18/2011 5:17 AM, James Knott wrote:
Joachim Schrod wrote:
Here LVM is the problem, not RAID-1.
With RAID-1 via md and no LVM, /boot on a mirrored ext3/ext4 filesystem definitively works with grub. We use it since several years, and had enough disk errors to prove it working. One needs to take care that grub bootloader is installed on both disks, though, openSUSE doesn't do this itself during installation. Extra robustness comes with stanzas that name both disks, in case hd0 is not visible to the BIOS any more and hd1 suddenly gets hd0.
Perhaps someone should do a HOWTO on this. I recently set up a server at work with RAID 4 for most of the system, but /boot is not on RAID. If I'd known about this I would have done it.
Why Raid 4? Its pretty rare for that to be used anymore. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org