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Thanks Eli and Martin. ..though i need more docs to start. i'm |
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completely new to software raid on linux |
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and lvm. |
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Regards, |
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Andrius |
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Martin Hajduch wrote: |
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> | Very possible. You will want to setup a software RAID (probably RAID |
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> | 1 I assume) from the CD. Since a software RAID device can't be |
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> | partitioned you can make the whole thing a PV and go from there. You |
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> | will need to create a ramdisk to start the software raid devices and |
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> | initialize the lvm. There is infomation on how to do this in the |
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> | RAID Howto and the LVM Howto at www.tldp.org. |
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> my two cents |
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> partition physical drives, create two equally sized small partitions |
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> (one on each drive) -> and use them as two swap partitions later; |
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> it is better then creating swap on lvm over raid |
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> the rest of the drives can be the second partition, and these two big |
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> partitions can be merged into one raid1 device, this can be then used |
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> as pv for lvm |
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> regards, |
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> martin |
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