==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] PCI IDE card?; "John Stoffel" adds:
Chuck> Most IDE/SATA RAID (especially onboard) is shite and completely not
Chuck> worth using, to the point that Linux software RAID is vastly
Chuck> superior. Even if I had a so-called "RAID" chipset on my
Chuck> motherboard, I'd disable it and use software RAID.
[snip]
john> I keep waffling back and forth between RAID1 (mirroring) and RAID5.
john> And I keep waffling between booting from RAID or not. Part of the
If you don't boot from RAID, then you still have a single point of
failure. It's quite possible that this is a fine solution for your home
setup.
john> problem is that to boot off raid, you need to build a intrd image,
john> and since I do a bunch of kernel compiles and reboots all the time
john> (say once a week or so...) I've been a bit leary of all that.
Let me rephrase your reasoning: You don't want to use an initrd because you
aren't familiar with the process. Just because you do a lot of kernel
builds/reboots (and your definition of a lot is my definition of very few,
here), that is no reason not to use an initrd.
What distribution do you use? You could simply use the packaging scripts
that they provide to build your custom kernels. This, in the end, would be
the best solution in my opinion.
john> Now that would be a good meeting some evening, talking about and
john> showing how to setup a bootable RAID system for the OS and how to
john> upgrade your kernel easily and automatically.
Two separate issues, I think.
-Jeff