Re: Raid 5

[Dick Thomas <xpd259@gmail.com>]

On 6 March 2013 21:49, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than
>> bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk
>> RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some
>> number of primary partitions (up to 4 - I use 2, / and /home, with swap
>> files rather than swap partitions but traditionalists may prefer a swap
>> partition). Grub treats the array like a disk drive and has no problem
>> booting from it.
>>
>> One issue you may have with Squeeze (I recommend Wheezy instead) is that the
>> UUID for / in grub.cfg may be wrong. Simply replace it with the correct one
>> (probably for /dev/md0p1) and everything will work. You will have to repeat
>> this anytime update-grub is run. This is not an issue with Wheezy.
>
> We must be using very different d-is!
>
> I've never seen an option to create a partitioned mdraid array for
> either squeeze or wheezy.
>
> Furthermore, grub2 in squeeze cannot recognize partitioned mdraid
> arrays; squeeze has grub2 version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and
> partitioned mdraid support was introduced in version 1.99-1.
>
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I just tried the latest weekly and I can't partition a device once
i've made it in to raid
okay it was in a VM but it just offered one file system , lvm or encryption

or am I missing something ?