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Re: off-Raid file systems



On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 07:48 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> I'm planning to set my new AMD-64 system up with the bulk of its files 
> on a software RAID-1 device.  Although there are now ways to get the 
> system to boot from a RAID device, there are also warnings about the 
> difficulty of using rescue CDs when things go wrong.  So I would like to 
> be able to boot strictly from a nonRAID partition (preferably a reiser, 
> but if there are tropubles with that too, let me know).
> 
> Presumably I would need /boot, /bin, /etc, and maybe /root off the RAID 
> device, so that it would still boot if the RAID were inaccessible.  And 
> I can probably place /usr and /home on the RAID.  What else needs to be 
> on nonRAID partitions so that booting and using rescue disks will go 
> smoothly?

I think i would be safer to  only put the "big" partition on the 
RAID device, leaving / on the JBOD.

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