On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:34:39AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Is that striped or mirrored? (I thought the boot blocks only knew
> > about mirrored raidframe - I am after striping hence ccd)
> 
> If your kernel is on a bootable partition outside of the raidframe disk,
> separate from the "real" root inside the raidframe, then you can boot any
> type of RAID (including 0, 4, and 5).  For nonredundant setups (such as
> striping), this should be no problem.
> 
> This is accomplished with the "-A yes" and "-A root" raidctl operations,
> which tell a booting kernel to autoconfigure the RAID device *and* make its
> 'a' partition override any other notion of root partition.

Ah - I'll try that..


Thanks,

Patrick