[Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Administrator TOOTAI wrote:
> 
> >Craig Guy a écrit :
> >
> >>Are you using raid for performance or redundancy?  Software raid is nice 
> >>except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. I 
> >>guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or something.
> >
> >
> >If you're using GRUB, fallback option allow you to boot on another boot 
> >partition if first failed.
> 
> Yes, and if you don't get to GRUB, what do you do?
> 
> I very much prefer a Linux software raid setup myself, but you are 
> depending on the quirks of your BIOS if your primary boot drive dies.

Not really. When you run lilo on your raid1 boot partition it updates 
the MBR on _both_ drives which are thus equally capable of booting you 
back into your raid (1 or 5) root partition.

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