[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Sat Jun 7 12:05:17 UTC 2008


On Saturday 07 June 2008, Richard Freeman wrote:
> 1.  Created raid1 boot/root partitions.  I made my root partition fairly
> small to avoid the waste associated with raid1.  About the only actual
> files on /root are bin, etc, sbin, lib, and root - about 280MB.  Note
> that your distro must be pretty good about it puts in these directories
> or you'll have bootup problems.
/boot is the only thing that needs on a raid 1.  Bootloader grub can 
read /boot, load the kernel and the initrd and start the boot process.
Once the kernel is loaded, all modules are loaded to access the other raid/lvm 
partitions.

Stef


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