From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add mdadm to the installation image. Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:25:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160714131306.GA11566@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bO47i-0005T2-L7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:29:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bO47d-0006i6-JR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:29:49 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bO47d-0006hN-Co for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:29:45 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bO46g-00053U-Jv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:28:46 +0200 Received: from c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.167.118.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:28:46 +0200 Received: from myglc2 by c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:28:46 +0200 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > the hydra replacement comes with two hard disks, which we would like to set > up as a raid10. For this, one needs mdadm. While it can be pulled in during > installation via "guix package -I mdadm", I think it is preferable that it > already be around, the same as cryptsetup, for instance. The attached patch > does this. > > What do you think? > > Andreas I want to do this on my own servers, so I am wondering ... How do you plan to address mdadm and grub config? Will you be booting from RAID? TIA - George