[TriLUG] How to migrate LVM to LVM on Raid-1

[Rick DeNatale]

On 2/20/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > Okay, I bit the bullet this morning and started the conversion.
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> Congratulations!
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> > The other question I've got is whether or not it's permissible to put
> > the two boot partitions on these two drives into a raid1 array
> > themselves, or will grub get confused by this?  The issue is manually
> > syncing them when I install/remove kernel packages for maintenance.
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> Oooh, ooooh, oooh!  I can answer that.  ( shades of Horshak )
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> Why?
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> Once you have everything stabilized, why do you _need_ two boot
> partitions?

So that if one of the drives fails, I can still boot from the working one.

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Rick DeNatale

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