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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:06:37PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> Rick C. Petty wrote:
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> > And you can do this with software RAID5 as well.
> 
> You can't boot from a RAID5 gvinum plex currently, and probably never
> will, as the loader would need to understand all the RAID5
> transformations to locate the kernel.

Oops, I was thinking of booting from gvinum mirrors, which it can do.

-- Rick C. Petty