Re: Install and RAID
On 20 Jan 2001 15:17:15 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> So the question is, is it worth still allowing installation to non-RAID
> partitions?
Yes, for reasons I'll explain below.
* Pain in the arse to set up.
* Buggy kernel drivers.
* Doesn't work with ReiserFS.
* Speed
> A RAID partition is the same as a regular partition apart from having a small
> amount (less than 100K) of disk space reserved at the end.
... and about 60 seconds ;)
> If you choose to not use the RAID device you can just edit /etc/fstab to
> refer to the raw devices instead and change the partition type to something
> other than 0xFD, and reboot.
Hmm.
> In this scheme if the user sets partitions as type 0xFD then it will install
> as RAID and start RAID at every boot.
>
> If the user sets partitions as other types then it would install as RAID but
> put the raw devices into /etc/fstab. So the RAID driver would not be used at
> boot, but this could easily be changed without requiring a rebuild.
I think it's utterly stupid not supporting non-RAID partitions in
install. Doubly so when there are people out there (like me) with
everything but /boot on ReiserFS (and that's next).
Of course, no offense or anything, but no.
=) d
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Daniel Stone
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