Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

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On 11.03.2015 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote:

>> Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to
>> get that box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the
>> rootfs-raid etc etc ... -> fun
> 
> I found this with a LUKS root filesystem, dracut doesn't
> automatically detect such devices any more, so speed up the boot.
> You need to specify rd.auto or rd.mdraid to force it.

I think, both ... I will have a look next time.

> I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still 
> access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your
> computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the
> array, so all updates are pushed to all four disks.

So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ?

S

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