From: Tara Piorkowski <tara@vilaj.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Kernel config for auto detect and boot support
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:19:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D580A42.7050104@vilaj.com> (raw)
Hello.
I need to get RAID-1 running on one of our servers we use with a hosting
service (thus, I don't have physical access to the machine). I have done
lots of reading and just wanted to verify that my understanding of
things is correct as not being able to bring the machine back online in
case of a problem would not be a good thing. I have two questions...
1) I have found various references to setting "auto detect" and "boot
support" options during the kernel configuration process. Since I want
to boot from a RAID partition, I obviously need this support. However, I
have been unable to find these options in the 2.4.18 configuration
process. Thus, I assume that at some point in the 2.4.x series this
support has been rolled into the broader "RAID support" option, right?
(I built my kernel with just that and the RAID-1 options.)
2) In the interest of reliability, I wish to RAID my swap partitions as
well. My understanding of this is that I should simply create partitions
of type 0xFD on my two drives, initialize the RAID, mkswap on the source
partition (since the kernel doesn't look at partition type when mounting
swap), and make the appropriate /etc/fstab entries. Is this correct?
I appreciate any assistance that I receive. Thanks.
Tara
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Tara Piorkowski
System Administrator
vilaj.com, LLC
<http://www.vilaj.com/>
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