From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Tonton <tonton@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: Root partition on raid?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:52:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftoeer86.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190612082340.6a00c26a@merlin.browniehive.net>
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Tonton,
Tonton wrote:
> This is mostly a shot in the dark, but is it feasible to have a
> /boot
> partition with a initramfs on a partition of it's own and then
> all the rest
> of / on a raid partition?
Sure. I do this on my home server, so I never have to worry about
rebooting headlessly after swapping a RAID drive (or have to
install GRUB on every single one).
> To make it work kernel, initramfs, mdadm, GRUB and some other
> tools would
> need to be copied to the /boot partition from store, but this is
> potentially
> worthwhile?
You've lost me here, though. Why is this needed? What needs to
work?
Oh… are you using some hardware RAID that GRUB can't see?
Does it provide advantages that mdraid wouldn't?
Kind regards,
T G-R
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-12 6:23 Root partition on raid? Tonton
2019-06-12 15:52 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2019-06-12 21:22 ` Tonton
2019-06-12 22:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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