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 97CD2138CBD for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29731E0A53; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:33:01 +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 18A5EE08B2 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3329226583 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:32:59 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:32:38 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy Message-ID: <20150311223238.42f750c9@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5500BE59.8070609@xunil.at> References: <54FFE4A2.3060008@xunil.at> <20150311110929.5fdb4970@digimed.co.uk> <550064BB.1000706@xunil.at> <20150311160631.53647abf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5500BE59.8070609@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_/FuoEGXH8qNTJo_HGkyTDHg/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c04871fc-49bb-4086-9e36-c11f69366da0 X-Archives-Hash: 78a6f0b64aae090d0652220a5b0cfd94 --Sig_/FuoEGXH8qNTJo_HGkyTDHg/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >=20 > >> So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ? =20 > >=20 > > 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 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick During a raid on a local chemist's shop, 2000 Viagra tablets were stolen Police are looking for hardened criminals! --Sig_/FuoEGXH8qNTJo_HGkyTDHg/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUAwpgACgkQum4al0N1GQM99ACfS1FCue2V1fJlwcxf3V7VBxqv TKkAoNLPcAFhZvKxZVyZf5AeybOJPmWo =agQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/FuoEGXH8qNTJo_HGkyTDHg/--