[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

toomanymirrors toomanymirrors at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 15:11:20 EST 2009


Yes, no matter where you mount a raid partition to, you will necessarily
need the raid modules loaded. Accessing hardware requires drivers.
Jackson


On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 11:25 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, toomanymirrors
> <toomanymirrors at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree, with /dev/md0 being your home directory there should not be any
> > kernel panic even if it's not being properly mounted at boot. It sounds
> > like there is another issue going on. Try the suggestion above for grub
> > and I didn't notice you mentioning you'd added md_mod and raid1 to the
> > MODULES list in your rc.conf file either. You will need to do that.
> 
> If I have my system configured as follows:
> 
> /dev/sda1 = /boot (bootable)
> /dev/sda2 = /
> /dev/sda3 = RAID
> 
> /dev/sdb1 = swap
> /dev/sdb2 = /var
> /dev/sdb3 = RAID
> 
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
> 
> Once that is done, since I am not using RAID on anything but my /home
> partition, do I need to add 'md_mod' & 'raid1' in the rc.conf section?
> Is this a requirement because the Wiki mentions nothing about it...




More information about the arch-general mailing list