RAID/LVM Root Filesystem on SuSE8.2

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005, David Bandel wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:20:51 -0600, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
>> David,
>> 
>> Would you mind providing us with a link to your how-to? I remember reading one
>> about converting a running system some time ago, but can't seem to find it
>> this morning, and I'm not sure if that was yours or not.
>
>http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/raid_for_idiots.html
>
>Now I haven't tried other than raid1 and for /boot see no reason.  I
>also don't use GRUB (which, as I understand, doesn't play nice with
>RAID, not sure about LVM).

I've always thought that having the boot/root file system(s) on RAID or
requiring any non-standard drivers is playing with fire.  The only way I
would do this is if it's hardware raid that plugs into a standard SCSI
controller (e.g. the old Mylex externals).

Bill
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