RAID and /boot partitions

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Jul 2 17:30:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 16:50:09 +0000,
  redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hi,
> When creating a RAID 1 in F9.
> Does it make sense to make the /boot partition on both discs a RAID too?
> I have /boot and / as RAID 1 (dm-0 and dm-1). If I disconnect one of the drives, the computer freezes. Isn't the RAID supposed to keep it running?
> I'm really new to this, so any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,

Yes it does. It will make it possible to boot if you lose one of the drives.
Otherwise if the drive with the /boot partition on it were to die, you'd
need to do a rescue first.




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