Re: RAID + UEFI
Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 09:52 +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote: > TL;DR: IMO having /boot/uefi on (sw) RAID1 is not worth the headaches. > Long version follows. > > That's quite normal. You should use older RAID format that places > metadata at the end of the partition instead of the newer that places it > at the beginning. And even so it's risky, since one of the partitions > could get modified by other systems (the BIOS, for example) that aren't > RAID-aware (that's also one of the reasons that lead to the newer > format...). Yeah, I tried the older RAID formats, didn't work. ;) What I have considered is having a hook that copies /boot/efi from the "primary" drive to the "secondary". But I'm not sure how safe that is in reality. > Since you're using FAI, it's probably faster to just completely > reinstall the system (possibly preserving data partition(s)) than > risking RAID desync and related headaches. To keep the disk partitions > aligned, you could use the "mirror" space for an extra swap partition :) Heh, maybe. :) We're just going through and rebuilding a bunch of servers now. Better than doing a dist-upgrade. -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand [email protected] | Catalyst Cloud: | This space intentionally left blank https://catalystcloud.nz |