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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:18:54
Message-Id: 34EB3143-D184-4483-824C-20CE9B0C1301@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID by Jarry
1 On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jarry wrote:
2
3 > John Jolet wrote:
4 >
5 >> I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go
6 >> software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the
7 >> raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partition....or has
8 >> that need been alleviated?
9 >
10 > Not true. Of course /boot can be on raid too, but in case of linux
11 > software raid it can be only raid1 (which in case of small /boot
12 > partition does not matter). All other partitions can be in
13 > raid0,1,5...
14 >
15 My apologies. My software raid testing WAS with raid5. Thanks for
16 the correction.
17 > Jarry
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