| sean finney on 28 May 2007 06:22:55 -0000 |
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On Sunday 27 May 2007 23:58:18 Antony P Joseph wrote: > Is it reasonable to put boot image in the raid there by causing > unnecessary requirements on the boot loader? > 1. A small boot loader has to recognize the raid etc.. > Boot image is used only once at boot time before the next boot. the way lilo works it doesn't actually put the bootloader on the md device at all, but instead puts it on each of the physical disks' boot sections. so the configuration could be thought of as "and put one here too". > If you are booting the device again, you have plenty of time to put > another backup drive of boot device in place. this makes a very large assumption that you know your disk has failed. think about what happens if the first time it fails is when you turn on your computer :) sean Attachment:
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