Linux Software Raid 1 Recovery Question

[andy+blu at utter.net (Andy Davidoff)]

Yesterday I built a SCSI RedHat-7.2 box with the root filesystem on
RAID1.  Today I successfully booted from both disks without changing
a thing.  If you are having problems with a boot-RAID, I'd look to
the fact that it's IDE or that the array wasn't configured during the
installation process.

I have also lost disks under SCSI RAID1 without hanging the system or
causing unscheduled downtime of any sort.  Gone are the days when to
solve RAID problems I had to hack kernel source.  The stuff just works.


#if Kent Borg /* Oct 02, 15:26 */
> What I have not figured out is how to get a RH 7.3 (and presumably
> 7.2) to boot off of a half-array /dev/hdc.  This is something I need
> to figure out...and I think I need to put RH 7.2 on my test bed
> machine to do so.
#endif /* kentborg at borg.org */

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Andy Davidoff
Sen. Unix SysAdmin
Tufts University