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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:59:32
Message-Id: 20150313085917.60f7931c@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:38:15 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2
3 > >>>> c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3
4 > >>>> missing disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the
5 > >>>> contents of sda2 will be replicated to them.
6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7
8 > >>>
9 > >>> the array formatted as vfat (-> ESP) ?
10 > >
11 > >> sda2 is already formatted as FAT with the correct contents.
12 >
13 > yes ... and after that?
14 >
15 > install gummiboot to each physical disk?
16 > create new loader-entries ?
17
18 See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having to
19 update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device.
20
21 % mount | grep boot
22 /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime,stripe=4)
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24
25 --
26 Neil Bothwick
27
28 Ifyoucanreadthis,youspendtoomuchtimefiguringouttaglines.

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