From: kloeri@gentoo.org
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:03:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bba6100b0603011933k670314a5ibe3bbd0be8c0f6ce@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:33:41PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
> i just got my first alpha box, its an alpha server 400, i have 3x9gig
> scsi drives in it. i was wondering if you can boot off of raid5 or
> even raid1? i know some of my sparc's had a problem with it, but this
> is new territory for me.
>
That should work fine using a hardware raid controller. If using
software raid I'd recommend against using raid on /. Even if you can
apply some hackish solution to make it boot the bootloader won't
understand software raid so it can only be a hack. / isn't worth all
that trouble in my opinion as it can easily be rebuilt if needed.
Instead, protect /home and other important data (mail, websites, ..)
using raid but leave the system non-raided and simple.
All this is meant as a general advice and applies to all archs, not just
alpha or sparc.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 3:33 [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question Nick Smith
2006-03-02 10:03 ` kloeri [this message]
2006-03-02 10:40 ` Andrew Gaylard
2006-03-02 11:41 ` Ben de Luca
2006-03-02 12:31 ` Nick Smith
2006-03-02 13:29 ` Andrew Gaylard
2006-03-02 13:34 ` Ben de Luca
2006-03-02 14:42 ` Nick Smith
2006-03-02 18:03 ` Marc Giger
2006-03-02 14:41 ` Nick Smith
2006-03-02 15:10 ` Andrew Gaylard
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