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Re: Raid1/LVM layout via installer



Gour <gour%atmarama.net@localhost> writes:

>> With raidframe, the first 64 sectors are the raidframe header, so you
>> can't do that.
>
> I was reading the docs
> (https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rf.html#chap-rf-ex-raid1root)
> where just that example is described, iow. converting single-disk install to
> the raid1-one?

Sure, anything can be done with enough steps and work.   There, one
installs into non-raid and then sets up raid on the second disk, and
rsyncs the data.  So it's not converting a disk to raid, it's copying
data to a 2nd raid disk and then copying back.

To make this work, the raid metadata would have to be stored someplace
else.  That would be an interesting design, but it's not what rf did.
These days, the zfs approach is more appealing.

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