raid questions

[David Koski]

On Sunday 13 January 2008 13:43:38 Sean Carolan wrote:
> > This is not correct.  It will not boot from linux software raid0 so that
> > is out of the question.  Booting from raid1 and running raid0 should have
> > no performance loss as the boot partition is only needed to boot.
>
> Perhaps you could kindly explain how you boot from a software RAID
> partition.  If the mdadm drivers are ON the RAID partition I do not see
> how this is possible.

If you install to a boot raid1 you don't have to do a thing as the installer 
will make sure initrd.img has the needed drivers (raid1, md).  If you modify 
an install to boot from a raid1 partition after the fact, then you need to 
configure mkinitrd or whatever you use for creating initrd.img.

Regards,
David Koski
david at kosmosisland.com