Re: Software RAID

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:59:10 -0500 (EST)
<<On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:40:40 -0800 (PST), Steve Lee <maillist_at_blitzen.net> said:

> So there is no way to mirror the root so if one drive fails,
> i can't have the other drive boot up ?

There are ways to do that, but in order for that to work at all you
need to have BIOS support.  Some of the ATA ``RAID'' products work
like that: they have BIOS support for mirroring/failover, but the
operating system has to do all the work once it's booted.  FreeBSD
supports these controllers reasonably well, and they are quite
economical.

-GAWollman
Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 16:59:14 UTC

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