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#1 2015-04-26 22:27:19

volumetricsteve
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Possible RAID install on GPT/UEFI install?

I'm aiming well outside of my capabilities at the moment...but if it's at all possible to set up a RAID 1 (mirrored) on two identical drives I'm curious to see if anyone's managed to do it, or has pointers as to how to pull it off.

I currently have one GTP/UEFI install that's working perfectly on a 32GB ssd.

The cheapest, ugliest way I can immediately think to do it is to install an identical drive, dd my current drive (which is fully installed and working) to the new drive, then cron a job to rsync the directories I care about.

When I did this in Solaris 11.1, it was....easy-ish to make a zfs pool and just have it do everything in software...it worked pretty well.

As for Arch Linux...any suggestions?

Should I rely on a hardware solution for this?

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#2 2015-04-26 22:57:01

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Re: Possible RAID install on GPT/UEFI install?

There is a RAID page on the wiki: it is straightforward. As for rsyncing, why would you do that? If you want a RAID install, use mdadm.


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#3 2015-04-26 23:20:33

volumetricsteve
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Re: Possible RAID install on GPT/UEFI install?

Huh...my googling didn't bring that up for me.  Thanks for the idea, I'll start there.

In case someone else missed it on google:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID

Last edited by volumetricsteve (2015-04-26 23:22:00)

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