> personally, i recommend putting your root filesystem on a raid mirror

that was the plan...

> and use "raidctl -A root raid0".  then the kernel will find and use
> the specified raid as root partition, and you won't need a special
> kernel config for it.

yip, should do so. however, i'm running a fix-configured kernel right 
now, i'll give it a try later.

> do this on multiple U10's, including the latest which boots from an
> ideflash card.  you can do "single sided" mirrors if you don't want
> to waste the space for mirroring... just use raidframe as a naming
> scheme for your partitions.
>
>
> .mrg.

RAID1 is nice for this system as it is a production machine ;)

thanks & cheers,

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