On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> 
> >> 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.  
> 
> I will redo my setup tomorrow ... thanks
> So your suggestion is with MBR and not GPT?

Absolutely not! MBR is fragile, limited and horrible. I use GPT but not
UEFI because this is a pre-UEFI motherboard.

> I still wonder if to do UEFI and GPT because both are the more modern
> ways of doing things (and be prepared for future developments) or just
> stay with BIOS and MBR as long as I don't need it (with disks smaller
> than 2 TB etc)

Given the choice, I'd use GPT for the above reasons and UEFI because
Gummiboot is nicer than GRUB.


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Neil Bothwick

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