Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:43:32 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Alex said: > > I really can't believe the default install with two disks is LVM with > > striped disks and no redundancy. It's such a process just to create a > > RAID system. > > It would be nice if anaconda recogn

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alex said: > I really can't believe the default install with two disks is LVM with > striped disks and no redundancy. It's such a process just to create a > RAID system. It would be nice if anaconda recognized a pair of same-sized disks and had an easy "click here for redundancy

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Reindl Harald writes: Am 15.02.2012 03:52, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: >> Alex writes: >>> I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. >> >> That's news to me. > > It is apparently the "official" stance; see the F16 common bugs page. and why in

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.02.2012 03:52, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: >> Alex writes: >>> I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. >> >> That's news to me. > > It is apparently the "official" stance; see the F16 common bugs page. and why in the world was a release

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-14 Thread Alex
Hi, >> >I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. >> >> That's news to me. > > It is apparently the "official" stance; see the F16 common bugs page. Yes, I also have an fc16 install with RAID1 on boot, but they mostly don't work properly. The newer servers (ones that support the GP

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: > Alex writes: > >I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. > > That's news to me. It is apparently the "official" stance; see the F16 common bugs page. > Yup, all three of my F16 servers have /boot on RAID1. I went through a PITA today ge

Re: /boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alex writes: Hi, I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. That's news to me. /me checks. Yup, all three of my F16 servers have /boot on RAID1. pgpyfzncfgrQs.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

/boot on RAID with fedora16

2012-02-14 Thread Alex
Hi, I understand /boot on RAID1 on fedora16 isn't supported. However, what are the ways in which some form of boot redundancy can be provided? If there is no other alternative method for a disk failure, how do you rescue a system where the disk on which the bootloader is on has failed? Does RHEL