software raid

[Michael Hipp]

James McDonald wrote:
> C M Reinehr wrote:
>> Glad you could figure it out.
>>
>> I'm just the opposite, I prefer the software (md) raid and use nothing 
>> but Raid 1. Considering how inexpensive hard drive capacity is these 
>> days, I don't mind the extra expense of raid 1 over raid 5. I overlay 
>> the raid drives with LVM and get stripping, as well. I like the fact 
>> that if a drive fails I still can recover the data off of the 
>> remaining drive.
>>
>> cmr
>>
>>   
> A question. The /boot partition needs to be on a non-raid volume or how 
> does that work?

I have lots of systems where the /boot and /root are in a RAID-1 volume. No 
problem. I generally use ext3 as grub as had support for it for a long time.

Michael