On Tuesday 06 March 2007 00:42, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
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 Greg, there seams to be one point you missed, Even though the software raid works in as a boot drive (in all situations I've ever tried), I seldom use the DVD recovery and such.
The partions on a software raid 1 are not controller specific, so you can take out a good disk, pop it into a usb-box and restore it on any machine! If find this functionality missing in hardware raids. This is has been my standard upgrades procedure for years. When I upgrade I've always bought 2 new Disks, install the system from DVD, and recover all my data from USB. I get nervous when using hardware raid, as I cannot pull the disks and get the data.... Jerry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org