From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NsJ3I-0007Jl-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:58:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB30EE07E6; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A52E07E6 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E98AE93FA; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:57:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:57:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=WwaWdKTcyJjMEuy1vk9UhDCvZ4E=; b=BqcvCmQwAdwZudSvnHMPqMIm+dsOl8jKlGCpzc697sNPwQtcVPL2a5vAawvNFHGU/PiaPpj2TE6EL5UaemKYpfvksfOIdW4aUHc6E2Of4I0sKRwA2sojruMznlelFX0qXxoj8Lz7mcvPRII4NaFq6HRpXsXREcO/KqkImZoGOMc= X-Sasl-enc: XCJ2boykk793pEIwI2/P+F8a1e+6N7piCN/1iw+BzzKW 1268931473 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A71AEAA81 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:57:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BA25B87.6070703@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:57:43 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100313 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo... References: <4B9E343A.4040908@shic.co.uk> <87d3z53b2u.fsf@newsguy.com> <854dca5c1003150849l16b375ddl89ad2e20a8f6a135@mail.gmail.com> <4B9E5FA4.1040501@shic.co.uk> <7D7A990E-4680-472D-8408-FFABFE82EDBA@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4B9E87FA.3090600@shic.co.uk> <4B9EB4B6.9040106@alyf.net> <4B9FB29D.7010902@shic.co.uk> <25EC8AD5-9178-4556-AB64-6069AAB40845@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100316200433.02dc667a@digimed.co.uk> <035445D6-FEB8-42C2-B8DB-C57F8CFACD31@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100316212626.17152fc4@digimed.co.uk> <4BA13F32.9010207@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <20100317210028.1e4f499a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100317210028.1e4f499a@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig45C6AEF28E0EC35B045D81A2" X-Archives-Salt: 0c90abd7-e301-477e-8d2e-81e986f74d2e X-Archives-Hash: 37b4555d8d72b5e54a27ee86aa177ffd This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig45C6AEF28E0EC35B045D81A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >=20 >> Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken di= sk >> for this to work? >> If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also >> work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the= >> disk from which grub managed to boot)? >=20 > I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For > example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broke= n > disk's MBR before failing later. >=20 > Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you cou= ld > disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you= 'd > want to leave a broken disk in the box. >=20 >=20 Just in case I ever face high demands on uptime. It's good to know whether I can still (remote) reboot a machine and it will come up although one of its drives is broken. --------------enig45C6AEF28E0EC35B045D81A2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuiW44ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8bLQCfXpbU7Pm5Hsn2KLHA+eBu0CI1 H0sAn0BVUPa3JJWBBADCk0WAF5ctPmvE =9Dkj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig45C6AEF28E0EC35B045D81A2--