Stephen Gran on 25 May 2007 13:41:39 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Linux (Debian) and raid 

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:00:15AM -0400, Doug Crompton said:
> In Windows raid 1 (at least with he Intel MB's) works the way I would
> like it to. It keeps two identical copies of drives that can function
> as standalone drives. I could take either of my drives from my raid
> array and throw them in a virgin, non raid, system and they would boot
> windows.

This is exactly how linux software raid1 works.  It will boot in
degraded mode (since a disk is missing from the array) but it should
just carry on.
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