David C. Rankin wrote:
Rui Santos wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Sbs Bofh wrote:
For years I've been setting up (open)suse machines with three (or more) partitions - each one using software RAID1, all partitions created and RAID set up during the installation. Has worked (at least up to 10.3) like a dream...
/dev/md0 as /boot, /dev/md1 as /, and /dev/md2 as swap is(was) my current standard.
Is it true that you simply can't do this (at least the /boot bit) with opensuse 11.x?
NO that is the way I run 11.0 and it runs fine.
Are you sure ? Are you using Grub ? Have you tried to unplug the first HD to see if it boots ?
In my case, in all installs I did, the YaST system did not install itself on the second HD.
I haven't unplugged a drive to check, but I would expect raid errors if the drives weren't mirrored:
That is correct... The problem is that the MBR on the HD's are not mirrored. The Grub loader is copied only onto the MBR's first disk, and not the second. This will turn the system "unbootable" in case the first HD fails. However you use dm-raid... It may not apply to you...
12:43 ecstasy:~> sudo dmraid -r /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0
No errors to date. A pull test will be a good experiment though. If it fails, I'll report back, but if I was a betting man, I'd bet it boots fine on either sda or sdb
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