Re: LVM + dmraid
David Abrahams <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ataraid |
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Luca Berra <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:10:40PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >>Phillip Susi <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Could you supply some more background information? >> >>The first piece is that I've now dropped dmraid for mdraid, since I >>don't *really* need to dual boot to Windows. I want to run Windows >>virtualized. Is anyone going to argue that I'm giving up something >>important by using mdraid? > > depending on your bios you might not be able to boot if the primary > drives fail. You mean, for example, if one of the RAIDed drives used for /boot fails, I might fail to boot? because...? Couldn't I boot off a CD in that case? > besides that i do believe md to be a better system than fakeraids. Thanks, that's reassuring. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com