From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing a failing drive from multiple arrays
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:36:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426073607.GA11590@nsrc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F98B4FE.5010101@tmr.com>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:37:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have put MBR and boot partition on a USB thumb drive because the
> failure rate of a R/O flash is lower than rotating devices (in my
> experience). Use ext2 for boot, no journal so the drive works really
> read-only. Hopefully grub2 mounts the boot noatime.
Another option, although I've not done this for a long time, is PXE boot.
You need a DHCP server giving out the correct parameters and a TFTP server
for the kernel (and ramdisk?)
Regards,
Brian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 18:54 Removing a failing drive from multiple arrays Bill Davidsen
2012-04-19 21:52 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-20 14:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-22 22:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-22 22:55 ` NeilBrown
2012-04-25 0:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-20 14:35 ` John Stoffel
2012-04-20 16:31 ` John Robinson
[not found] ` <CAK2H+efwgznsS4==Rrtm6UE=uOb25-Q0Qm84i8yAJEJJ2JLdgg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-04-22 18:41 ` John Robinson
2012-04-26 2:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-26 6:19 ` John Robinson
2012-04-26 7:36 ` Brian Candler [this message]
2012-04-26 12:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-04-26 13:23 ` Brian Candler
2012-04-26 21:17 ` Bill Davidsen
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