Hi List, I'm looking at installing Software RAID on two new servers at work (one web and one db server). I'm really only interested in RAID-1 for it's redundancy, I'm not particularily concerned about performance. I've gone through the Software RAID HOWTO and it seemed fairly straight forward, however, I haven't managed to get things working and I have a couple of questions and problems:
1) Question: Is it important to have my boot partition (also my root partition, I don't have a seperate /boot) as part of an array? If I want this array for redundancy, I would have thought this was essential, but it looks like quite a difficult process. Is it worth the hassle of following the instructions in the HOWTO (which I find a bit confusing and haved managed to botch up once already)? Is there another option for a fully redundant system? If I just RAID my non-root partitions, is this still fairly safe? 2) Problem: I managed to get Software RAID working to an extent when I compiled all the RAID kernel components as modules (at least I was able to execute the 'mkraid' command to start constructing the array on the /home partition) but it's stopped working since I compiled support directly into the kernel. This could just be me doing something stupid, but I've checked my kernel configuration twice. Any other RAID advice anyone can offer (redundancy related) is also much appreciated, as I'm a bit of a RAID-newbie. Regards, Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
