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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