Re: How to get the most out of HD space.

• To: Dave Ihnat <dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: How to get the most out of HD space.
• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:23:39 +0100
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:13:52 -0500
Dave Ihnat <dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:07:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You can boot from raid1 - but of course its actually booting from the one
> > disk in reality not from the mirrored set.
> 
> Ah--*software* RAID1?  At boot time, it doesn't know about /dev/mdX.

Yes. The software raid volume as /dev/sda1 or similar is understood by
the BIOS just fine, and since both have the same data works fine.

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