From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FEkdX-0007W6-Oe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:02:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22A28d5024070; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:02:08 GMT Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k22A28kk010182 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:02:08 GMT Received: from kloeri (ns.cabinn.net [62.242.182.225]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E9E3C47FEA4 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:02:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by kloeri (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:03:38 +0100 From: kloeri@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:03:38 +0100 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question Message-ID: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k22A28dM024070 X-Archives-Salt: 6275039d-ca29-4038-9f6b-3764d59064cd X-Archives-Hash: 4fb4d5c0091ca4cc221c48c46fa48c89 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. >=20 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 =C3=98stergaard --=20 gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list