On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:32 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't > > allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array > > Create a raid 5 array of the whole disk set and then put LVM across it. You > can then create logical volumes within the LVM volume group, and these > are the equivalent of partitions.
So, is it not possible to have multiple RAID5 partitions, or is this a temporary limitation of debian-installer? And crypt? Okay, I had forgotten about the possibility of using LVM. Perhaps that works on top of dmcrypt as well... > Remember to have a non raid 5 partition for /boot (eg, either RAID1 or > just a plain disk partition (ugh)), because IIRC, neither grub nor lilo > can cope with booting from software RAID5. Right, that's what I was planning on. Thanks for your help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
