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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:33:41PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote: |
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> i just got my first alpha box, its an alpha server 400, i have 3x9gig |
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> scsi drives in it. i was wondering if you can boot off of raid5 or |
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> even raid1? i know some of my sparc's had a problem with it, but this |
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> is new territory for me. |
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That should work fine using a hardware raid controller. If using |
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software raid I'd recommend against using raid on /. Even if you can |
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apply some hackish solution to make it boot the bootloader won't |
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understand software raid so it can only be a hack. / isn't worth all |
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that trouble in my opinion as it can easily be rebuilt if needed. |
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Instead, protect /home and other important data (mail, websites, ..) |
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using raid but leave the system non-raided and simple. |
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All this is meant as a general advice and applies to all archs, not just |
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alpha or sparc. |
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Hope this helps. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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