From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Cc: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting off of RAID10 versus RAID1
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:09:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48246938.3070909@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48231C82.9010509@dgreaves.com>
David Greaves wrote:
> Maurice Hilarius wrote:
>
>> After recent issues discovered with RAID1 and failing disks, I am
>> contemplating alternatives to ensure more reliability.
>>
>> The question that arises: Is there any way to boot a system from a
>> RAID10 md?
>>
>
> I've been wondering about booting grub/initrd from a flash USB stick (industrial
> quality if needed).
>
Not needed, you won't be writing it often (I hope!), so just the MBR and
/boot can go on that device.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-09 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-08 13:34 Booting off of RAID10 versus RAID1 Maurice Hilarius
2008-05-08 14:35 ` Andrew Farley
2008-05-08 14:40 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-05-11 7:28 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-05-08 15:30 ` David Greaves
2008-05-09 15:09 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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2008-05-08 16:25 David Lethe
2008-05-08 17:16 ` Twigathy
2008-05-08 17:38 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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