From: misty-@charter.net
To: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:19:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040803051946.GA8781@roll> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040801102430.GC28625@janus>
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:24:30PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:27:56AM +0930, Ninti Systems wrote:
> >
> > Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array?
>
> >From software RAID it can't.
>
> USB storage devices (memory stick) are incredibly useful for this --
> I've even booted a webserver from a digital camera ;-). The only catch
> may be the latency of the USB code when you don't want to use initrd:
> The kernel panics (no root dev) because it takes noticeable time before
> the kernel sees an USB storage device. But there are several tiny patches
> for this, it's merely a nuisance.
Personally I use sw raid5 as my /, and as I messed up and now can't fix it
to work with a /boot, I instead use a lilo'ed 3.5 inch bootdisk, which loads
the kernel and mounts root. *shrugs* it works fairly well, I can't complain
much.
Tim McGrath
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-03 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-01 1:57 RAID 5 questions Ninti Systems
2004-08-01 3:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-08-01 3:31 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-01 3:50 ` Alvin Oga
2004-08-02 6:01 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:08 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-02 6:55 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:09 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-02 7:27 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-03 20:23 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-04 8:52 ` Tim Small
2004-08-01 9:33 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-01 10:24 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-03 5:19 ` misty- [this message]
2004-08-06 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-03 14:29 Raid " David Greaves
2004-06-03 15:13 ` Guy
2004-06-03 15:50 ` David Greaves
2004-06-03 16:43 ` Guy
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