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  1. Bug #97655
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 97655

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Lesley McDowell (lesleymcdowell) wrote : Re: [Bug 97655] Re: dmraid45 target please

That's good to know. I was about to pull my hair out. I am building a HTPC
machine and wanted raid 5 for redundancy. Looks like I will have to use
raid 0 and backup the important stuff on a regular basis.

Again, thank you for the info.

On 5/9/07, Chad Bernier <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you Tom for doing this for us and for Ubuntu. I hope someone
> picks up my other bugs, because my raid set won't activate properly.
>
> lesley, It sounds like you want to BOOT off your raid5. That isn't
> going to happen, not anytime soon. I hope you can get it working as a
> data drive though. To be able to boot of raid5, first the initrd needs
> to be fixed to include dmraid in it and whatnot. After that's done
> though, grub still needs to be patched. I might be wrong, but I am
> under the impression that Grub cannot boot off a raid5 array, although
> it will work on a raid0. I hope I'm wrong about that, and full raid5
> support can be added to gutsy, and will be included in FC7.
>
> --
> dmraid45 target please
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97655
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