Re: metadata and / and grub-static

[John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>]

On 05/04/2010 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
> John,
>    Thanks for the summary. It's succinct and covered the info I needed
> this weekend.

In which case, apologies for not answering until Monday afternoon :-)

>    One question comes to mind. I'm about to build a Gentoo machine
> that will run a number of copies of Windows in VirtualBox VMs. The
> system will be nice, reliable RAID1 for all of Linux, and then 'fast'
> RAID0 on different drives for the VM data. As there will be nothing
> involved with booting Linux on this RAID - just the VM data. I assume
> that there's no problem assembling RAID0 after the boot process has
> essentially completed, and that this RAID could use any form of
> metadata?

Yep. You could do this with /home /usr /var too. I expect Gentoo's init 
scripts will run mdadm for you before mounting the other filesystems; 
the other distros generally do.

Cheers,

John.