Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 01:52:30PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Configure the LSI to present individual disks and then use mdadm
> > the normal way: partition the disks into two sets, a small /boot
> > partition and a large /. (Or three partitions per disk: /boot, /
> > and /home.)
> >
> > Create mdadm pairs for each of sda1,sdb1 sda2,sdb2 sda3,sdb3
> > ... and set /dev/md0, for /boot, as bootable. The Debian
> > installer can handle all of this easily.
>
> Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead of
> single partitions?
Yes, but if it's going to be your main boot and root, don't do
that.
> I am not using the debian installer, but want to boot from network with an
> NFSROOT, create a basic system on the RAID and then reboot from RAID.
That's fine. All of this can be done by hand with fdisk or
parted, mdadm, and mkfs.
-dsr-
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