From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: schmidt@naa.net
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new raid system for home use
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:20:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4083FC32.7050103@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4083F865.7070803@chemie.uni-erlangen.de>
Norman Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Paul!
>
> Paul Phillips schrieb:
>
>> I was under the impression that I can't boot off raid-5, but if that
>> information is dated then all the better.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>
>
> Afaik, that´s still true. The reason is that the two (or more) drives of
> a raid 1 essentially hold the same data, and if you do everything right,
> the complete boot mechanism is on all disks, so that you can boot with
> any of them. On raid 5 disks, you would never have the complete data on
> any of the disks.
If you can load an initrd, you can boot off of anything.
The question then becomes whether or not you can load the initrd :)
Sometimes even in RAID5 situations you can...
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-19 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-18 3:34 new raid system for home use Paul Phillips
2004-04-18 18:49 ` Mark Hahn
2004-04-18 20:22 ` Paul Phillips
2004-04-19 16:03 ` Norman Schmidt
2004-04-19 16:20 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-04-19 17:50 ` Mark Hahn
2004-04-21 13:24 ` Robert Washburne
2004-04-18 20:48 ` Guy
2004-04-19 16:01 ` Norman Schmidt
2004-04-19 9:16 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-04-19 17:57 ` Mark Hahn
2004-04-20 1:14 ` maarten van den Berg
[not found] <4084AC05.6090800@tequila.co.jp>
2004-04-20 11:46 ` Mark Hahn
2004-04-20 12:54 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-04-20 16:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-20 20:08 ` KELEMEN Peter
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