Followup: Lack of support for soft RAID

[Scott Dier]

It will on a scsi box if you have it configured correctly or depending 
on how the disk fails.

Thanks,

Phillip Susi wrote:
> You can get the boot loader partition mirrored yes, but the bios won't 
> boot from the non primary mirror if the primary one develops a bad 
> sector.  You have to intervene by either telling the bios to use the 
> other disk, or yanking out the primary.
> 
> Scott Dier wrote:
>> Phillip Susi wrote:
>>>  or from a degraded
>>> raid1/raid5 without manual intervention.
>> Not true in the raid1 case, there are multiple ways to configure this 
>> with grub or lilo.
>>
> 
> 


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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>