From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DB264D3.A994B237@silicide.dk> From: Jon Bendtsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Fwd: LVM on ATA-Raid Working - but Poorly References: <1034915787.3daf8fcb66a42@mail.dornquast.com> <3DAFB7D4.B88B6737@silicide.dk> <3DB02DD6.B8B4B48E@silicide.dk> <3DB0348D.42FFC0A4@silicide.dk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun Oct 20 03:10:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > >>>>> "JB" == Jon Bendtsen writes: > > JB> True true, but then your boot device is software raid ?? > > Yes, but not on LVM. /boot and / were mirrored (all eight ways, which > I know is overkill). > > JB> And lilo ?? > > It didn't have any problem; it wrote identical boot blocks to all > eight disks, and would boot with the first disk in the system > disconnected. This was the first such server I built and I did it > some time ago so I haven't tried with anything more modern like Grub. Well, grub doesnt matter i use lilo myself. How did you get lilo to write it to all 8 bootblocks ? JonB