Hi folks, A quick question: are there *any* Debian derivatives that support RAID 1 / and /boot? I just tried the latest debian-installer snapshot, and was told when i tried to put them on RAID 1 that this was not supported. I've logged a bug report, but since it explicitly states it's not supported, i don't like my chances of getting it fixed anytime soon. I can't afford to run non-RAID on any of my systems (all but the one i'm writing this on are servers), and hardware RAID isn't an option.
<Not_a_flame mode="frustrated; constructive criticism"> Red Hat have supported software RAID 1 installations since 7.3 (or earlier perhaps - my memory is a bit faded). How can Debian claim to be a suitable server OS without supporting it? Hardware RAID is not a suitable option on many systems, and not a preferred one anyway, since software RAID is more portable - you can take the hard disks from one machine and put them in another and they just work. </Not_a_flame> I've tried Morphix, set up my RAID partitions manually, and installed to them, and that seems to work, but because my drives are SATA, they are very slow due to a pre-2.4.26 kernel deficiency in the Silicon Image SI3112 driver. Am i best to try an updated Morphix with a newer kernel? (I've previously used the latest 0.4 release.) Thanks in advance, Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- If at first you *do* succeed, carefully check your success metrics for accuracy.
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