[Hampshire] software mirror

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: Hants LUG
Subject: [Hampshire] software mirror
Hi,

I will eventually get a new home server. For my own piece of mind I'll
run the box on a pair of mirrored disks. Because I can't afford a
seriously expensive hot-swap system with fancy hardware RAID controller,
I'll be using normal cold-swap SATA disks and Linux software RAID (+LVM2).

Most of the disk will be mirrored and then LVMed before applying
filesystems, I was wondering about the boot partitions though, as
I believe out of the box GRUB doesn't boot from a mirrored boot.
I believe it's possible to create a mirrored boot though, any
good tips or how toos? Or can the Debian installer do it all
automatically on it's own thesedays?

--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

I never really understood how there could be things that would
drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. 
    -- anon