From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: metadata and / and grub-static Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:31:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4BBA105B.2040609@anonymous.org.uk> References: <2D.29.28131.56A49BB4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> <4BB9F9E4.2060802@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Knecht Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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.