From: Gavin Whitehead <gavin@alabastercranium.demon.co.uk>
To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition based raid1 and multi boot Ubuntu/Xubuntu
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:16:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECE43AC.8070907@alabastercranium.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111241105300.17642@unicorn.drogon.net>
On 24/11/2011 11:54, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Gavin Whitehead wrote:
>
>> I then installed Ubuntu 11.04 from the Alternate CD and created some
>> raid1 devices
>> md0 sda1 sdb1 /
>> md1 sda5 sdb5 swap
>> md2 sda6 sdb6 /home
>
> Can't help you with the GRUB issue as I use LILO, however... Something
> that someone on this list suggested to me many year back has stuck
> with me and proven to be useful and that's to try to number the md
> devices the same as the sd (or hd in those days!) devices, so:
>
> md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
> md2 : active raid10 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
> md3 : active raid10 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
> md5 : active raid10 sdb5[1] sda5[0]
>
> etc.
>
> Is it still a good idea? I think so - anything that helps to reduce
> the possibility of mistakes is good in my books...
>
> Gordon
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Gordon,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will bear it in mind next time I am
building the raid devices (which I have a feeling will be soon).
Gav
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-24 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 22:23 partition based raid1 and multi boot Ubuntu/Xubuntu Gavin Whitehead
2011-11-22 22:45 ` NeilBrown
2011-11-23 21:04 ` Gavin Whitehead
2011-11-24 11:54 ` Gordon Henderson
2011-11-24 13:16 ` Gavin Whitehead [this message]
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