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On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:00:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > > > There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume |
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> > > I doubt that :-) |
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> > Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with |
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> > /boot *not* on a separate partition? |
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> > Or does grub understand linux raid these days? |
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> well, you just put boot on a seperate partition. is there any good reason |
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> not to do so? |
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No, of course not :-) |
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But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very |
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common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with |
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everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux |
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raid. |
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I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do |
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it, and for that you need an initrd. Besides, we're talking about what's |
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possible, whether it's good or bad isn't part of the topic. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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