From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrddv-00076p-AT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:45:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BF99E082F; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AF0E082F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.132] (helo=smtp1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrdci-0006we-8A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:20 +0100 Received: from 5353258a.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.37.138] helo=data.hosts.antarean.org) by smtp1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrdca-0002FC-Ao for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:12 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C772529488 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.hosts.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.hosts.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cuZjNg-mEgKj for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.hosts.antarean.org [10.1.5.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ADF92763B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:11 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo... Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B9E343A.4040908@shic.co.uk> <20100316200433.02dc667a@digimed.co.uk> <035445D6-FEB8-42C2-B8DB-C57F8CFACD31@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <035445D6-FEB8-42C2-B8DB-C57F8CFACD31@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003162144.11157.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Nrdca-0002FC-Ao X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.001, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_50 0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: da668e6a-f87b-4258-a291-110749c608a3 X-Archives-Hash: 78b5fe73ac1c297085fcae87f2e74fbc On Tuesday 16 March 2010 21:13:29 Stroller wrote: > On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +0000, Stroller wrote: > >> How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? > > > > You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own. > > Is this reliable? I don't contest it, I'm just asking. It's just this > was one of my considerations when choosing hardware RAID. > > Stroller. > This is the generally recommended method and I found this method in the Gentoo documentation. If this wouldn't be reliable, I would have expected this not to be in the docs for long. I have /boot mirrored, not actually tested with removing a disk yet, but I am confident it will work. If not, I have other methods of booting the system and getting to the data. -- Joost