<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2008 1:54 PM, Jack Smith <<a href="mailto:jack.delbert@gmail.com">jack.delbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 5, 2008 1:07 PM, Clif Flynt <<a href="mailto:clif@cflynt.com" target="_blank">clif@cflynt.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When I've RAIDed a system, I started out by making the devices<br>RAID devices. It's a partition type, just like swap or NTFS.<br><br>I'll bow to experts, but I don't think you can upgrade an existing<br>
file system to RAID.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Drat! That's what it's starting to look like to me too.<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>On the other hand, how can you set up software RAID _before_ you load your operating system? Don't you have to have an operating system and an app (mdadm) _first_? Or does it mean root can never be software RAID? My head is starting to hurt.
<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.