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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:11:43
Message-Id: 20150313141134.2cfd55f4@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
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3 > > See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having
4 > > to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device.
5 > >
6 > > % mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2
7 > > (rw,noatime,stripe=4)
8 >
9 > /boot is my vfat ESP here .. no ext2 ...
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11 That makes no difference, the filesystem sits on top of the RAID.
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13 As I said, that computer is pre-UEFI, so /boot is ext2. But RAID doesn't
14 care about the filesystem, it just mirrors the bits.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 Pedestrians come in two types: Quick or Dead.

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