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Re: RAID1 on / planned?



* W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org> [2004-06-11 15:00]:
> - Is RAID1 on / planned to be supported?  IMHO, it doesn't
>   make much sense to have RAID1 support, but not on /.  OK,
>   you may save the / or /boot from time to time manually
>   on the second disk, but that's not convenient...

I intend to work on this after rc1 has been released.  There is one
problem with mkinitrd which will be easy to fix; apparently, there are
problems with the boot loader too.  I don't know details, though.

> - I prepared the first disk (all partitions of type raid) in
>   the installer, then the second.  Unfortunately, the
>   partitioner forgot the types of the first disk, as soon as
>   I prepared the second one.  I had to set the 'raid' type
>   of the first disk again.  Bug in the partioner, bad usage,
>   or jealousy between the two disks?

Maybe a bug in partman, yeah.  Can you reproduce this?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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