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Hi, |
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:42:35 -0500 |
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"Nick Smith" <nick.smith79@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 3/2/06, Ben de Luca <bedel@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > I don't know if the bootloader can boot off ext3 partitions; I've |
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> > > never |
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> > > tried. You'll have to dig into the docs to find out. |
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> > ext3 is ext2 with a journal. so if it can see ext2 it can see ext3 |
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> > -- |
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Wow, 10 mails in one day! Is this a new record for this list?:-) |
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I just want to say that it is relatively easy to boot from a software |
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raid1. Since the discs are bitwise mirrored, you can mount a single |
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partition directly. This is also the trick behind booting from a raid0 |
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array. It doesn't boot from raid but reads just a single partition from |
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the raid. I should mention that you shouldn't mount a part from the |
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array read-write... |
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My setup is as following: |
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/dev/md0 on / type xfs (rw) |
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proc on /proc type proc (rw) |
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sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) |
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udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) |
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devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) |
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/dev/md5 on /boot type ext2 (rw) |
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/dev/md1 on /usr type xfs (rw) |
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/dev/md2 on /var type xfs (rw) |
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/dev/md3 on /home type xfs (rw) |
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/dev/md10 on /usr/portage type xfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/md11 on /space/01 type xfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/md12 on /space/02 type xfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/md13 on /space/03 type xfs (rw,noatime) |
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none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) |
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(swap is mirrored too) |
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My boot partition is ext2 (to make aboot happy) and about ~40MB in size. |
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ext3 doesn't make sense, because the journal also needs space but |
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would work too... |
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If one disk fails, I have no downtime and loose no data. |
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I hope this helps a little bit with your decisions. |
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greets |
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Marc |
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