Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 07:15:24 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: friar_josh@webwarrior.net, jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020714071524.1587f419.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020714004247.GB16279@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org> <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> <20020713222745.00281f72.steve@sohara.org> <20020714004247.GB16279@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:12:47 +0930
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
G> On Saturday, 13 July 2002 at 22:27:45 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
G> > It seems to be about RAID on standard non-raid controllers to my
G> > poor eye. It does not mention that they will not work, only that there
G> > are boot restrictions.
G>
G> I've been reading the atacontrol man page. It's not very clear, but
G> you could be right. If so, it's a well-kept secret. There also
G> appears to be no way to recover such a RAID 1 partition.
I've found confirmation - There was a thread in -stable around the
18th of June (subject the new ATA driver vs. vinum) in which Bob Wilcox and
Remo Lacho both mentioned running RAID arrays on non RAID controllers using
the support in the ATA driver.
Having RAID1 without recovery seems less than ideal though.
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