Re: [OT] / on soft-raid1, disk labels
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:25:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mit, 22 Sep 2004, Adrian Zaugg wrote:
> > have to setup a boot partition, which is not on the raid and has bsd
> > disklabels, and a root partition, which is on the raid and has pc-style
> > disklabels (type fd). If I remember right, you cannot mix pc-style and bsd
> > disklabels on one physical disk, so you need to have a separate physical
> > bootdisk. Apart from that, it's the same as on a i386.
>
> Grmmm, well, complicated. Anyway, I will have to go for this, if nobody
> else can contribute genius ideas.
I gave up. I can tell you that I tried all sorts of strange things
and could not get RAID 1 working reliably on a disk with BSD disklabels.
Sometimes it died with mkraid, sometimes the mkfs, sometimes when it
should restart on reboot. The only consistent thing was it died
somewhere along the line.
- Craig
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