From: David R. <dr...@gm...> - 2006-03-16 01:47:20
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On 3/15/06, Khaled Hussain <kh...@ip...> wrote: > The purpose of what I would like to do arrises from the fact that in the > event of sda failure, I wont be able to boot the raid array. Therefore, > perhaps I can make a one off backup of the /boot partition to backuppc an= d > then should failure happen, I can just restore the backup of the /boot > partition and have the machine boot, and raid5 will automatically recreat= e > the failed raid partition on sda. > I hope this makes sense; please correct me if I'm wrong. I would do this: Partition all 3 disks the same way. Create a software RAID1 for the boot partition using those partitions. You'll have an extra partition so use it as a hot-spare. When setting up your boot-loader, just remember to run the init routines on all 3 drives and you'll be set. -Dave |