[Wolves] Linux software RAID ?

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Sat Dec 27 19:02:51 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:28, Ade wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was wondering, how easy is it to setup software RAID ?
> 
> Would I be able to put my OS on say two disks setup as RAID 0? Or can 
> the OS not live on a software RAID partition?
> 
> Cheers
> 
Hi Ade,

The OS can only reside on a software RAID1 partition. This works as both
disks contain an identical copy of the partition either of which can be
used by the boot loader. The full software RAID support is not available
until the kernel and the relevant modules have been loaded.

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