Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:04:02 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Software RAID 5 as root? |
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Hi,
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 22:57:57 +0000 (GMT), Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> said:
> I'm setting up a fileserver (24gb) for a local school. Originally, I was > planning to use a Mylex DAC960 card to do RAID 5, but due to problems with > the card I've started trying Linux software raid. Is there a way I can > make the RAID 5 be the root partition, or is that a stupid idea? Should I > instead have a non-redundant root partition? If so I suppose I would have > to make /var, /usr, and /home symlinks to those on the RAID, as I want > them all to have redundancy.
As long as you are using a sufficiently recent version of the raid code, you can mark partitions as "autostart": anything with a partition type of 0xfd (settable using fdisk) will be automatically raid-started by the kernel before it attempts to mount root.
--Stephen
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