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Andrei Slavoiu posted |
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<20060217161218.13280.qmail@×××××××××××××××××××××××.com>, excerpted below, |
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on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:12:18 -0800: |
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> --- Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> [T]his box gets treated pretty much as a development machine would, |
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>> with partitions moving up and down and being copied between disks far |
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>> more often than lots of people would find comfortable! |
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> Did you ever consider LVM? I never worked with it but from what I know |
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> it was designed for exactly this purpose. Have a look here and see if ti |
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> would help you http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml |
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lvm2 is a pretty neat solution. I use it here for my non-root raid-6 |
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partitions. The biggest catch with it is that it requires an |
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initramfs/initrd if system-root is to be lvm. I prefer the simplicity of |
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avoiding an initrd, so I don't use lvm for my root partitions at all. |
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I have only /boot on raid-1, since neither lilo nor grub can read other |
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raid forms, so only one partition there to worry about and no need for |
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lvm. I have two partitions on raid-0, /tmp (with /var/tmp a symlink to |
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it) and a shared "stryper" partition containing ccache, the portage tree |
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and distdir, and /usr/src, and it's simpler just to manage that as raid-0 |
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partitions directly. However, the raid-6 has quite a few separate volumes |
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on it, with a working and a backup copy of most of them, so other than the |
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root and backup-root partitions (which include /var minus /var/log and |
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/var/tmp and /usr minus the portage tree, /usr/local, and /usr/src, thus, |
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the roots contain everything portage usually merges to, keeping each |
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portage database, the one on working and the one on backup, in sync with |
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what's actually on that partition, a lesson I learned the hard way), I |
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keep the rest of my redundancy needing data in lvm2 volumes in one big |
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raid-6 partition. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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