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On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:13:29 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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> >> How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? |
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> > You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its |
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> > own. |
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> Is this reliable? I don't contest it, I'm just asking. It's just this |
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> was one of my considerations when choosing hardware RAID. |
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Yes it is, if sda fails unplug it and sdb becomes sda (or hd1 becomes |
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hd0 in GRUB terms) and the boot continues. Because RAID1 puts the RAID |
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superblock in a different location from the ordinary one, you can use |
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either disk from a RAID1 array as a single disk. |
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