LVM not fit for Fedora Core

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jan 2 11:17:49 UTC 2007


Le mardi 26 décembre 2006 à 11:16 -0700, Lamont Peterson a écrit :

> BTW, just for the benefit of those reading this in the archives in the future, 
> GRUB will work when /boot/ is on top of software RAID1, but it is rarely done 
> as one might have to alter the /boot/grub/grub.conf (/boot/grub/menu.lst on 
> all other distros) to read the correct disk the first one goes out.  For 
> example, changing (hd0,0) to (hd1.0) throughout the file.

It's done there and it works good.

In case of hardware failure, the chances that hd1 is renumbered in hd0
are rather high (either because faulty hd0 was removed, it didn't answer
the bios which dunked it, or you just changed bios boot order manually)

If you have / on lvm and your small /boot partition raid-1 mirrored on
every disk you use, suddenly you can plug your disks in any random
number and things will just work (linux-side that is).

Very magical, considering that other OS will fail at the slightest
change (and there grub remapping tricks may help)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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