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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: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:43
Message-Id: 20150312164831.58542127@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:30:45 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2
3 > I now have a dedicated ESP on /dev/sda2 (non-RAID) and it boots via
4 > gummiboot (-> UEFI).
5 >
6 > I now wonder if I could
7 >
8 > (a) create a RAID1 over /dev/sd[abcd]2 and format it as vfat ESP
9 >
10 > or
11 >
12 > (b) "clone" /dev/sda2 -> format each /dev/sd[abcd]2 as vfat, copy the
13 > content of /boot in there and install gummiboot to each harddisk
14 >
15 c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 missing disks.
16 Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the contents of sda2 will be
17 replicated to them.
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21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>