Hi -- I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody install. The software is newer than the docs, particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with experience would be most appreicated.
My hda and hdc drives are identical in size. hda is divided into multiple partitions -- / (/dev/hda2), /boot (/dev/hda1), /home (/dev/hda5), /usr (/dev/hda6), /var (/dev/hda7). There is nothing on hdc yet. My plan was to mirror all of hda onto hdc so if there was a drive failure for one drive the system would be fully functional. If anyone has a similar setup already working, I'd love to see their /etc/raidtab and lilo.conf files with a brief description of how to get it working without deleting anything on hda (i.e., reformating the drive). Otherwise, the questions I'm grappling with are: - Can I create a single RAID device (md0) that mirrors all of the hda/c, or do I need to create separate RAID devices for each partition(md0, md1, ...,md4)? - Assuming I need one for each partition, what are people's thoughts on skipping / and /boot RAID? This is the most intimidating part from reading the docs, but it would seem to lessen the value of RAID considerably. - Is the Boot+Root+RAID Howto still accurate, particularly for Lilo? It was written before the Lilo in Woody and it's not clear to me what still applies. There's now a RAID boot option in Lilo which I'm not sure how it would effect things like boot= and root=. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Richard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
