Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

[Christopher Mosher]

I am running it on the ICH6 software raid just for clarification.

>From: "Christopher Mosher" <mosh5382@×××××××.com>
>Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:36:28 -0600
>
>I am currently dual booting Gentoo and Windoze on an SATA RAID 0.  My boot
>partition is installed on the RAID as the two hard drives are the only
>bootable media I have in my system.  I was able to get it going thanks in
>large part to this topic on the forum:
>
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354878-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
>
>I've been playing with Linux for about a year and a half and Gentoo is the
>first Distro that I have been able to get to run on my hardware how I want
>(or at all).  I'm fairly convinced that with enough time you can pretty
>much get this distro to do what ever you want, but this is besides the
>point.  Basically I'm just trying to point out the fact that you can run
>your boot partition from the RAID 0 with no additional media required to
>boot.
>
>
>>From: Jarry <jarry@×××.net>
>>Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
>>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:02:42 +0100
>>
>>John Jolet wrote:
>>
>> > I personally prefer hardware raid,  because if you go
>> > software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition  can exist on the
>> > raid.  so each drive would have to have a /boot  partition....or has
>> > that need been alleviated?
>>
>>Not true. Of course /boot can be on raid too, but in case of linux
>>software raid it can be only raid1 (which in case of small /boot
>>partition does not matter). All other partitions can be in raid0,1,5...
>>
>>Jarry
>>
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