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Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm

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Hello,

> Configure the LSI to present individual disks and then use mdadm
> the normal way: partition the disks into two sets, a small /boot
> partition and a large /. (Or three partitions per disk: /boot, /
> and /home.)
>
> Create mdadm pairs for each of sda1,sdb1  sda2,sdb2  sda3,sdb3
> ... and set /dev/md0, for /boot, as bootable. The Debian
> installer can handle all of this easily.

Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead of
single partitions?

I am not using the debian installer, but want to boot from network with an
NFSROOT, create a basic system on the RAID and then reboot from RAID.

Regards
  Christoph

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Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm "Christoph Pleger" <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> - 2016-03-24 12:10 +0100
  Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-03-24 13:00 +0100
    Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm "Christoph Pleger" <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> - 2016-03-24 14:00 +0100
      Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm "Christoph Pleger" <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> - 2016-03-24 15:10 +0100
      Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-03-24 16:10 +0100
        Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm "Christoph Pleger" <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> - 2016-03-24 17:10 +0100
          Re: Setting up Fakeraid with mdadm Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-03-24 17:30 +0100

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