[ML-General] hardware RAID

[WebDawg]

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> I would highly recommend not using any FakeRAID with Linux. I've done it
> before (in order to dual-boot a workstation) and it was a real pain. If
> you're going hardware RAID, fine. But if you're going to do it all in
> software, you might as well just use the mdadm in the normal manner (it's
> really not that hard) and it will be more resilient if you need to move it
> to a new machine. The few bits in the ROM that the FakeRAID gives you
> really do nothing helpful.
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My primary concern is how the bios or Grub would handle a corrupt/failed
boot loader?

I have had systems with mdadm/dual bootloaders and such and I have seen
bios's try and boot a failed drive and just sit there.

I have seen bios boot a corrupt boot partition and really screw things up
too.  At least I think that was the problem at the point.

Sure once the system is booted mdadm can handle a bad disk or what not.

But what exists to handle a bad /boot or bad bootloader, etc.  The stuff
that is not protected by mdadm.

It always seemed like the FaikeRAID bios at least handled bad disks on boot.
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