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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jens Reinemuth <jens@×××××××××.info> wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, |
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> i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10) |
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> with an adaptec aic79xx Controller... |
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> I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some (older) |
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> howtos that described you should be using metadata=0.9.0 at least on the boot |
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> and root partitions. Is this still an issue with actual kernels? |
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> regards, |
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> Jens |
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Hi Jens, |
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I've never bothered with actually making the boot device RAID as |
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it's pretty easy to recreate if it dies. I do mirror my /boot |
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partition on three drives so that hopefully I can change what BIOS |
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looks at to boot and get the machine back up that way if necessary. I |
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know of one person who reported that he made /boot RAID1 but only |
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boots from one of the drive to automatically shadow changes he makes |
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to /boot, but I've not tried that myself. |
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As for /root, I'm using metadata=1.2 here, but it wasn't easy. It |
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required an initramfs to figure out why it wasn't working, and then a |
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_lot_ of care about RAID naming in both the physical RAID details as |
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well as the mdadm.conf file to ensure it matched the eventual machine |
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name. However it does work well for me. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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