Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-17 Thread Alex Regan
On 05/17/2015 06:44 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/15/2015 04:29 PM, Alex Regan wrote: However, on UEFI, /boot/efi on RAID is not supported. I'm not sure I understand all the reasons for that, but I'm actually going to be experimenting this weekend to see whether that works for a partition w

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/15/2015 04:29 PM, Alex Regan wrote: However, on UEFI, /boot/efi on RAID is not supported. I'm not sure I understand all the reasons for that, but I'm actually going to be experimenting this weekend to see whether that works for a partition with 0.90 or 1.0 metadata, and a system that does

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alex Regan writes: Hi, In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to boot. I have a software RAID for /boot working on CentOS 6 servers at work, so I would be very surprised if it could not also

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, On 05/15/2015 05:19 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/15/2015 01:34 PM, Alex Regan wrote: What is the level of support for RAID1 on /boot? Is it now fully supported with fedora21? As far as I know, that's been supported for a long, long time. I don't remember a time when it wasn't. As re

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Alex Regan wrote: > Installing to /dev/md0 has also been a problem. Is the procedure to > install /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then switch the boot order in the BIOS when > sda dies? > > Often times when it dies, it won't automatically switch to another disk, > it seems

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Doug H.
On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:34 -0400, Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, > > What is the level of support for RAID1 on /boot? Is it now fully > supported with fedora21? > > In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, > meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to bo

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/15/2015 01:34 PM, Alex Regan wrote: What is the level of support for RAID1 on /boot? Is it now fully supported with fedora21? As far as I know, that's been supported for a long, long time. I don't remember a time when it wasn't. However, on UEFI, /boot/efi on RAID is not supported. I

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to boot. I have a software RAID for /boot working on CentOS 6 servers at work, so I would be very surprised if it could not also be done in Fedora. It

Re: /boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Alex Regan wrote: > In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, > meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to boot. > I have a software RAID for /boot working on CentOS 6 servers at work, so I would be very surprised if

/boot on RAID1 with fedora21

2015-05-15 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, What is the level of support for RAID1 on /boot? Is it now fully supported with fedora21? In the past, it's had a tendency to always put /boot only on /dev/sda, meaning if the first disk dies, the system becomes unable to boot. Forcing it to be on /dev/md0 or other RAID device has alway