From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47FB138CBD for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AD90E09EC; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895F4E0970 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7BAB22E25 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:07:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:06:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy Message-ID: <20150311160631.53647abf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <550064BB.1000706@xunil.at> References: <54FFE4A2.3060008@xunil.at> <20150311110929.5fdb4970@digimed.co.uk> <550064BB.1000706@xunil.at> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-75-g9971ef (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/VElziH75p8aMxTKv=wwRcww"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cb10598b-fe88-4df1-b797-03824b6ce4b0 X-Archives-Hash: 53d8294570ea44854226b04bda2ceb98 --Sig_/VElziH75p8aMxTKv=wwRcww Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > > 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. =20 That should have read "sda1 then sdb1". =20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? --Sig_/VElziH75p8aMxTKv=wwRcww Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUAaAwACgkQum4al0N1GQMxWACg27gdpxIs8MEDZmxg/9lptyA4 XYgAoM/tgU0BS4aC/uunHGq7MCQDtxNV =pL9S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VElziH75p8aMxTKv=wwRcww--