-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-04-05 a las 23:07 -0400, Larry Stotler escribió: (you forgot to email to the list)
On 4/5/07, Carlos E. R.
wrote: With any type of raid, any level? I can understand this working with a mirror set: the kernel can load from any one side. But what about level 5, for instance? There is no single driver from which to load the kernel, you have to read from the three in the precise order. (I meant drive, not driver)
With initrd, it shouldn't matter. The initrd ramdisk is small and loaded first, but probably should be on the first disk, since you have to specify a partition. That's why I never liked software RAID.
In my understanding, it would matter, because to read the initrd you need to be able to read the array. It would only work if grub code is able to read from a raid 5 unaided (both the kernel and initrd have to be read and loaded by the bootloader).
Further, with an LVM, if you lose the first drive, then(from my understanding), you can't get any data off the other drives. That's why I don't use it.
Dunno about that. - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGFhUktTMYHG2NR9URAlVuAJ0Sa+ra2MBqggNB3gDdzqo8kCsgvwCfcLck qPfyxO2ejhIK8OavLmoqa3o= =Rbhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----