On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:19:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if there's been any change in the idea you shouldn't install
> Linux on a RAID Array. For example if you have three drives, you take the
> first drive, install Linux on it, then make a RAID array on the other two
> and mount it. Has this changed? Can I make a big Hardware RAID 5 array
> and install Linux onto it without worrying I'll screw something up when a
> disk fails? We're using IBM ServeRAID 3L RAID adapters which work fine,
> but I keep hearing that you can't do a root RAID array.. hopefully this
> has changed, has it?
It used to be that you couldn't have a software RAID root partition.
Now the only criteria is you can't have a S-RAID boot partition. I
don't think there are any limitations with hardware RAID. But, like
everything, YMMV (your mileage may vary).
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