Re: [Hampshire] setting up software raid and LVM

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:43:33AM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:02:14PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >    I believe that's GRUB2, though. Versions 1.9x are pre-"release"
> > GRUB2 -- versions 0.9x are GRUB1, and are no longer being developed.

>
> GRUB 0.9x can certainly boot from RAID1 - I'm doing that on several systems
> currently. It only works because GRUB can access each disk individually[1]
> and GRUB needs to be installed on both disks. In such cases, I make /boot a
> RAID1 array without LVM on top and have the other filesystems as separate
> RAID1/5/10 devices with LVM on top of them.


... exactly as I suggested earlier. :)

Hugo.

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