also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> [2007.07.19.0126 +0200]: > > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive > > protected? > > no. raid 1 boots just fine. I do it on my server at home with a raid1 > /boot partition and a raid5 / partition. that's not true yet. grub2 supposedly supports RAID booting, but grub1 actually boots off one of the raid1 disks, not the raid1 itself. Since booting is read-only, though, this is not a problem, but does require you to make sure your BIOS and grub configuration can and do fall back to the second component if the first fails. Not trivial. > and during the rebuild process, can the > > rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild > > occurs? > > not sure. try man mdadm. Yes, it can. /sys/block/md0/md/sync_speed_max . -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems apt-get source --compile gentoo
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