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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add mdadm to the installation image.
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:25:47 -0400
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> 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