Re: metadata and / and grub-static

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Answering self - putting / on RAID1 only seems to work using
>> --metadata=0.90. Tried it with higher versions and had no luck.
>
>        One may most certainly run a RAID1 / or /boot (or both) using other
> than 0.9 metadata.  I'm running two servers with / on a 1.02 superblock and
> /boot on a 1.0 superblock, booting with grub 0.97.

Are you using an initrd? I could not make it work above 0.90 without
going that way which I didn't want to do.

>
>        That said, if the restrictions of a 0.9 superblock are not an issue
> for your system, then there is nothing particularly wrong with employing a
> 0.9 superblock.
>
>> Anyway, the system is running well now.
>
>        Unless the restrictions of a 0.9 superblock will cause problems for
> you in the future, that's the important thing.
>

I don't see that they will. I'm just building a home desktop/server
machine using 3-drive RAID1. I suspect you are doing more
sophisticated things than I.

Cheers,
Mark
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