On 2021-03-02 at 09:20, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:09:52AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-03-02 at 09:01, Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> RAID Device #1 is 1.9 TB, ext4fs, and set to mount on / >>> RAID Device #2 is 2.0 GB, ESP, and bootable >> >> So the EFI partitions themselves are also RAIDed? I wouldn't have >> expected that to work. > > That was my expectation as well, but Dan said it should work, so I went > with it. I didn't parse what he wrote that way. He said: >>>> You'll want to create the following partitions on each, >>>> identically: >>>> >>>> 1 efi - type efi >>>> 2 boot (or boot/root) - type MDADM volume >>>> 3 root, if using separate boot - type MDADM volume >>>> 4 swap - type MDADM volume >>>> >>>> Then you go to the mdadm setup and create MDADM RAID1 devices >>>> out of each pair of boot, root and swap. Note that he specified to RAID the three listed MDADM partitions, but did not mention the same for the EFI partition. > Of course, I've also tried it with then not RAIDed and the results > are identical, aside from the "canonoical path" error message in > syslog changing from /dev/md2 to /dev/nvme0n1p1. Not terribly surprising, but it was worth a check. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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