From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:59:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150313085917.60f7931c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5502A1F7.20106@xunil.at>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:38:15 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> >>>> 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>> the array formatted as vfat (-> ESP) ?
> >
> >> sda2 is already formatted as FAT with the correct contents.
>
> yes ... and after that?
>
> install gummiboot to each physical disk?
> create new loader-entries ?
See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having to
update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device.
% mount | grep boot
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime,stripe=4)
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Neil Bothwick
Ifyoucanreadthis,youspendtoomuchtimefiguringouttaglines.
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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
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 [this message]
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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