From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank van Maarseveen Subject: Re: Best Practice for Raid1 Root Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:58:33 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040118215833.GA15558@janus> References: <4005D408.8060002@physics.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4005D408.8060002@physics.ucsd.edu> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Terrence Martin List-Id: linux-raid.ids As has been pointed out it can be troublesome to handle half-broken disks. And its difficult to test. I'd just boot from an USB memory stick (or a CF card + USB reader, something I use). That way the possible failure of moving parts in your system gets separated from the boot process itself. And its easier to test. -- Frank