Software RAID not working or am I being stupid?

[Craig Emery]

On 28/04/04 08:25, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:17:29AM +0100, Craig Emery wrote:
> 
> 
>>Where the partitions say RAID1 they're RAIDed with the same partition on 
>>the other drive. It felt easier to duplicate /boot and have two swaps so 
>>the layout would be the same and all partitions the same size. :-$
> 
> 
> Well, first of all, the installer can handle mirrored /boot's since ages,
> so you can mirror /boot too.  Second, you can mirror swap too, although
> I agree it doesn't make sense on non-hot-swappable IDE drives (but it
> *does* make sense to do so on hot-swappable SCSI drives, as you're
> otherwise still lost when one of the two drives gets problems).
> 
> 
>>This is my 1st foray into RAID and I figured grub would not be able to 
>>grok the RAID so I left /boot as ext3. Funny thing is that before 
>>getting to the format / install stage, the installer sets up grub and 
>>says it's going to boot from /dev/md0! Can that be right? Maybe I got 
>>the primary partition wrong.
> 
> 
> /usr is 1 GB, which is *very* small, the rest at first sight looks ok.
> Unless you do a minimal installation, thsi probably won't fit.

Heh. I'm more than happy to increase /usr. Maybe the drive really was 
full! :-$ I've got an RH9.0 install that's just one big "/" partition & 
I just did "df -hs /usr" and it came out at 3.1GB! :-$ :'( My bad. Don't 
know *what* I was thinking.

>>Any thoughts? Is this a problem where the installer (Anaconda, right?) 
>>can't write to RAID partitions?
> 
> 
> It can since ages (RH 8.0 or so, IIRC), although it could be a bug in
> the FC2 test release (didn't try that myself).


Kewl. Thanks for all your feedback.