On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> Having /boot configured this way means that, no matter which disk
> fails the other will still boot in degraded mode.
>
Do watch out for bootloader setup - remember you want a 1st stage
bootblock on each physical disk. Your distro and/or bootloader* may not
automagically get it right, even today. If in doubt, check!
* These days I favour extlinux, it's no-nonsense compared
to grub, especially if you're only booting linux anyway,
but less primitive than lilo.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX
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