I am trying to build a system that will give me as much tolerance as possible. I have (4) 1 Terabyte drives.
I have created 2 mirrored raid drives md0 and md1. md0 has the / and boot partition on it. and md1 has the data on lvm. On /dev/sda I also have my swap partition on it. I have tried to test what would happen if i loose my first drive in the root partition /. I get a blinking cursor - something is preventing the mirrored drive from kicking in and booting. can anyone help ??? my config is below. thanks root@rider:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[1] 976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] [================>....] resync = 83.0% (810947712/976759672) finish=69.0min speed=40014K/sec md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 972849016 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> root@rider:~# root@rider:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005d0fd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 121115 972850176 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 121115 121602 3909633 5 Extended /dev/sda5 121115 121602 3909632 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c8a8d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 121115 972850176 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d27a0 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 121602 976760832 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d4cc8 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 121602 976760832 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md0: 996.2 GB, 996197392384 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 243212254 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1: 1000.2 GB, 1000201904128 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 244189918 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-0: 250.0 GB, 249997295616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30393 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 250.0 GB, 249997295616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30393 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 250.0 GB, 249997295616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30393 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 250.2 GB, 250207010816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30419 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table root@rider:~#