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. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org