From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: RE: AW: Stupid Question? Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:11:17 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <16562.32290.124423.951804@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16562.32290.124423.951804@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > > I often RAID1 a pair of whole devices, partition them into > root/swap/rest and boot off them (this is using md partitioning code > which isn't in 2.4, but is in 2.6). There is a problem here that lilo > thinks it knows all about md arrays. However I figured out how to > trick it into not realising they are md arrays and it works fine (I > create a symlink from /dev/MD* -> /dev/md* and only tell lilo about > /dev/MD*). Neil, Would you care to elaborate? I'm about to build a box with 6 x 250GB SATA disks and am currently designing the partitioning scheme. Could I potentially put in a small IDE disk onto which to install just enough system to boot and mount a RAID5 array built from the 6 whole disks? Presumably you then partition the RAID array, create the filesystems and mount the partitions as you would a single disk? Thanks, R.