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 DE2A9138CBD for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2DBFE089A; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:37 +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 BC3ABE087A for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D515426C8D for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:32 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy Message-ID: <20150312164831.58542127@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <550178E5.6020209@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> <20150311223238.42f750c9@digimed.co.uk> <550178E5.6020209@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_/qyjt_/VMN/4671TsCN5ezZe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: bd17d6e8-86e9-42e4-ae94-93d171fabd03 X-Archives-Hash: c6415ddbaa4ce1393da2db04933aed7c --Sig_/qyjt_/VMN/4671TsCN5ezZe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:30:45 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I now have a dedicated ESP on /dev/sda2 (non-RAID) and it boots via > gummiboot (-> UEFI). >=20 > I now wonder if I could >=20 > (a) create a RAID1 over /dev/sd[abcd]2 and format it as vfat ESP >=20 > or >=20 > (b) "clone" /dev/sda2 -> format each /dev/sd[abcd]2 as vfat, copy the > content of /boot in there and install gummiboot to each harddisk >=20 c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 missing disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the contents of sda2 will be replicated to them. --=20 Neil Bothwick Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. --Sig_/qyjt_/VMN/4671TsCN5ezZe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUBw18ACgkQum4al0N1GQPIJgCfdiPMbOEh1j8+E26br82WhN3T ONMAnRdQ1NEG4SSuzvii0AmgMnKC0X3x =OPP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/qyjt_/VMN/4671TsCN5ezZe--