Date:  Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:34:08 +0200
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:13995] Re: grub issues with bluequartz and software raid
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Rickard,

> I would like to change the raid-5 setup to be dynamic though... I always
> use raid-5 with 4 disks but that's because I'm running it on Tyan
> GT-20s... Other hardware setups could be running with either more disks
> or even with just 3.

Yeah, that's true. For one of my "other projects" I optionally offer RAID0+1 
(using four disks). It's basically a LVM on top of a RAID0 that spans two 
disks each, which are then mirrored. For that I had to hack another exception 
into fix_grub, as over there I of course have to use a dedicated /boot 
partition. It's a bit of a pitty that the Anaconda Kernel doesn't support 
RAID10 out of the box, but that's another matter.

In the end I think we'll do fine by just covering the install options that the 
CD offers out of the box, which are already plenty. Those who need custom 
RAID setups that the CD doesn't provide will probably know how to modify 
fix_grub to match their specific needs.

-- 
With best regards,

Michael Stauber