On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:19:27AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > 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. Must have had this in my mind from the pre gub (lilo days), but as pointed out by a previous email grub-install on the other disk should do it or I am guessing dd in the mbr and dd out. Most of my machines allow for boot from the first drive or from the second drive. > > > 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 . never too old to learn something new :) > > -- > 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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