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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:06:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150311160631.53647abf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550064BB.1000706@xunil.at>

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On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:52:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> > I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still 
> > access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your
> > computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the
> > array, so all updates are pushed to all four disks.  

That should have read "sda1 then sdb1".
 
> So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?

That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as FAT
and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs RAID and it
works well.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-11 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-11  6:45 [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-11 11:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-11 15:52   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-11 16:06     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-03-11 22:14       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-11 22:32         ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-12 11:30           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-12 16:48             ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-12 17:12               ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-12 17:28                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-12 18:52                   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-13  8:38                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-13  8:59                       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-13 13:55                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-03-13 14:11                           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-17 22:00                             ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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