Re: softwareraid

[Manuel Hendel <Manuel.Hendel@easygolucky.de>]

Thanks for the first time. that's what I wanted. But is it possible to
boot than from the mirror. How does this funktion?

Thanks, 
        Manuel

> hi ya manuel..
> 
> none.... you already have mirroring part of the kernel...
> 
> just setup /etc/raidtab  for raid1 == mirroring
> 
> 	http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
> 
> 	http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/raid1.conf
> 	http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
> 
> you can tell it what partitions to mirror...
> ( i think both disks should be partitioned indentically
> ( on identical manufacturers drives to minimize headaches
> 
> have fun
> alvin
> http://www.linux-1U.net ... 1U Raid5 ....
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have to setup a machine with a sofwareraid, just a mirror. Which
> > tool should I use, raidtools, raidtools2 or mdutils?
> > 
> > I already set up the machine on one disk. I made the five partitions,
> > boot, root, swap, usr, var. Is it possible to mirror the whole disk
> > and boot from the boot partition? By the way, I got debian potato
> > installed.
> > 
> > Thanks fot any help,
> >         Manuel