Re: RH 8 RAID 1 question

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

I'm confused, why is RAID on the root partition bad?  I know this will
cause minions to rise against me, but all of my M$ boxen at work (not
by my choice) are fully RAID 5, no separate partition for the root
that isn't RAID.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:17:15PM -0500, Damacus wrote:
> I don't know whether that's required or not... but having the root partition on a RAID setup is a bad, bad thing, in my book.
> 
> D
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:10:00PM -0700, Robert Threet wrote:
> > Has anyone ever tried to use the Red Hat GUI to create software RAID
> > 1?  I use Compaq hardware RAID a lot.  I've used software mirroring
> > on Novell.  I understand the concepts, but I can't seem to figure out
> > how Red Hat is doing it.  All of the docs I've found are for the
> > command line.
> > 
> > I can create a RAID partition and mirror it, but I can't seem to do
> > much else with it.  The installer insists I create a regular
> > partition for / etc., before proceeding.  These don't seem to be
> > mirrored.
> > 
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