[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID

[Xavier]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phillip Smith <arch-general at fukawi2.nl> wrote:
>> I've installed on RAID several times in the last week (diagnosing hardware
>> problems!) and everytime after I installed, I had to boot the LiveCD and
>> re-run `mkinitcpio -p kernel26` before the system would boot...
>
> When I fist asked why I don't see an option for Arch to configure RAID
> after I partition my system like I do on most popular distributions
> like CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc etc etc, I was told that
> "Arch does not hold your hand" which is fine. I liked the challenge of
> using the CLI to build my RAID partition & using 'mdadm' to build /
> activate the RAID1 mirror but after the last 3 weeks trying to follow
> the Wiki and forum advice, it appears that the Arch approach is
> extremely poor. The Wiki has great info but they mix the RAID / LVM
> info into all one so people who just want to mirror two or three
> drives get really confused with the LVM instructions randomly placed
> into RAID Wiki. The installer from the LiveCD / Netinst CD is very
> straight forward and extremely easy to configure. I am not a Linux
> newbie but I am very surprised that a distro which appears to be as
> popular and mature as Arch can't fix something as basic as RAID
> configuration. Everyone has noted that they had to do some kind of
> strange modification to get their RAID install to work. This looks
> really bad for me because I don't want to have to rig a system to work
> especially after I just installed it. It should just work. I hope
> someone sees this as a constructive comment and not a flame and feels
> its worth a fix. I would love to see the ability to get a Arch Linux
> RAID system going a bit more user friendly. I am not asking the
> configuration to hold my hand but for crying out loud...work out the
> box with out having to mod anything.
>

If you want to be constructive, create a wiki page only about raid, if
there isn't already one.

And you have to figure out which strange modifications are needed and
why, try finding the real problem, and report it on the bug tracker.