From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: new raid system for home use Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:20:02 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4083FC32.7050103@pobox.com> References: <4083F865.7070803@chemie.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4083F865.7070803@chemie.uni-erlangen.de> To: schmidt@naa.net Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Norman Schmidt wrote: > Hi Paul! >=20 > Paul Phillips schrieb: >=20 >> I was under the impression that I can't boot off raid-5, but if that >> information is dated then all the better. >> >> Thanks again. >=20 >=20 > Afaik, that=B4s still true. The reason is that the two (or more) driv= es of=20 > a raid 1 essentially hold the same data, and if you do everything rig= ht,=20 > the complete boot mechanism is on all disks, so that you can boot wit= h=20 > any of them. On raid 5 disks, you would never have the complete data = on=20 > any of the disks. If you can load an initrd, you can boot off of anything. The question then becomes whether or not you can load the initrd :)=20 Sometimes even in RAID5 situations you can... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html