Toni Mueller wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 04.01.2007 at 22:18:58 -0800, Dag Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can use raidframe to do software raid, though I at least have not
been able to do an "upgrade" of a system with its root slices on a
raidframe disk.
in theory, this should work in that you first upgrade your
non-raidframe'd root partitions, then reboot and proceed with the
normal upgrade. Or at least I've yet to find out how to make the
machine "genuinely" boot from a root partition on raid - including the
kernel...
Yes that is the theory, and that I am sure would work.
What I was trying to do is have _every_ slice be raidframe raid1.
I was able to get that to work, with a custom kernel sitting on a small
boot slice on each disk.
When it came time to upgrade...
Every solution I came up with seemed to be a kludge, and not conducive
to a click and drool upgrade path. So we just do an rsync to the other
disk daily and know that here will be a drive swap and reboot required
in the event of disk failure.
Hardware raid is very much preferred if possible, IBM has some nice low
end x series servers with raid controllers.
We have six of these little x2100's and I have really liked them.
They are in my opinion the best inexpensive 1U servers generally available.
Best,
--Toni++
