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Hi, |
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I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes: |
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1) MythTV server |
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2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build |
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3) Wife's new desktop |
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Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high |
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reliability I'd like to do software RAID with (I think) LVM on top of |
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that. I've not decided yet exactly what RAID type to use, and I know |
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nothing about LVM, so I'm reading here to learn: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/LVM |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml |
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The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: |
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/etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root |
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which seems sensible. From an install point of view I'm wondering |
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about RAID and how I should treat /, /boot and swap? As I'm planning |
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on software RAID it seems that maybe those part of the file system |
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should not even be part of RAID. Is that sensible? I always want / |
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available to mount the directories above. /boot on RAID means (I |
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guess) that I'd need RAID in the kernel instead of modular, and why do |
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I need swap on RAID? |
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The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. If |
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the machine has a hardware problem and is down for a day or two that's |
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not going to be a big problem as long as the Myth recordings, my |
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wife's home directory and the backups I'm doing and placing on the |
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machine are relatively safe. the processor is going to be WAY overkill |
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with 8 cores but it hardly makes financial sense to go smaller as |
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maybe I can even run some computer cycles on it, like building binary |
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packages for my other machines or something like that. |
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Interested in whatever thoughts folks have about the best way to |
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set this up. If I haven't outlined the requirements well enough let me |
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know. I'm at least a week from starting to build the hardware so |
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there's no rush on this but maybe comments will effect motherboard |
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selection, etc. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |