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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:53:53
Message-Id: 550064BB.1000706@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy by Neil Bothwick
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4 On 11.03.2015 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
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6 >> Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to
7 >> get that box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the
8 >> rootfs-raid etc etc ... -> fun
9 >
10 > I found this with a LUKS root filesystem, dracut doesn't
11 > automatically detect such devices any more, so speed up the boot.
12 > You need to specify rd.auto or rd.mdraid to force it.
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14 I think, both ... I will have a look next time.
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16 > I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still
17 > access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your
18 > computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the
19 > array, so all updates are pushed to all four disks.
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21 So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>