Re: Install and RAID
On 27-Jan-01, 06:54 (CST), Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:49:48PM +0100, Andreas Trottmann wrote:
> > However, it doesn't help in the problem discussed here, namely "what
> > happens if debian installs the system onto a set of degraded RAID
> > partitions, and the user switches (knowingly or unknowingly) to a kernel
> > that doesn't support software RAID)".
>
> Isn't that a problem with many of the kernel options though?
> For example if the user compiles his kernel for the wrong CPU,
> in some combinations it won't boot. Leaves out driver support
> for the drive or controller containing the root file system.
> Leaves out the root file system, etc, etc.
The difference is the likelyhood of it happening. Most of our users
won't actually have a RAID setup, so they'll be running in the degraded
mode, and it's likely that at least some of them will just skip over
the "do you want to configure software RAID" question in the kernel
config: "Huh? I only have one disk, I don't need that".
Again, the question at hand is not "should we support a RAID
configuration in our install procedure" (I think most agree we should),
but "should we make a RAID configuration the default", which I think
many of us has a lot of potential for problems, independent of the
quality of the technology.
Steve
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