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greetings again |
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yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client. |
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It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting |
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it up. |
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GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger |
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partitions of type fd=raid for creating 2 mdadm-raids (rootfs and data) |
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with level 6. |
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ok so far. |
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Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to get that |
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box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the rootfs-raid etc etc ... |
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-> fun |
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What the question is in general: |
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even if I manage to have it booting via UEFI from /dev/sda1 or so ... I |
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still have this single point of failure as the vfat-partitioned ESP is |
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on one physical disk only. |
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I would like to set it up in a way that it boots even when the /dev/sda |
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dies ... |
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Maybe I have to go the BIOS way and have an ext2-boot-raid1 over 4 |
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disks/partitions? I did that on other servers back then. |
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What is the up-to-date and recommended way of achieving this? |
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How do you gentoo-users do these things? |
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I am still at the start with this server and don't mind backing up the |
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rootfs and start from scratch with partitioning ;) |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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