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On Tuesday 16 March 2010 21:13:29 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +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 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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> Stroller. |
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This is the generally recommended method and I found this method in the Gentoo |
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documentation. If this wouldn't be reliable, I would have expected this not to |
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be in the docs for long. |
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I have /boot mirrored, not actually tested with removing a disk yet, but I am |
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confident it will work. |
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If not, I have other methods of booting the system and getting to the data. |
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