Re: LVM root?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> You can only add drives to raid5 with a good hardware raid card I
> believe (fake raids generally suck at raid5 since it is rather cpu
> intensive and needs a dedicated xor engine).  Raid1 is simpler, and is
> all the boot loaders currently support (since with raid1 the disks are
> identical, the boot loader just ignores raid and reads from one disk).

Support was recently added to the kernel and mdadm for this. By the
time one gets another harddisk and needs this it will probably be
tested enough to be reliable.

MfG
        Goswin