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Hi, |
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> the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. |
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I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use |
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udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev that for me? |
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> > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the |
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> > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the |
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> > root partition get's to small), |
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> yeah, but if you have 20+ gb root is always big enough ;) AFAIK lvm kills |
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> barriers. You use raid for better data security. So using lvm is a bit.. |
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> contra productive. |
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Sorry, I'm neither a LVM nor a RAID export - could you please |
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elaborate on that? |
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I like LVM because of the convenience it adds. |
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> > - Build a RAID1 partition for the rest of the system (will be a LVM2 |
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> > container) |
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> > - Build a last RAID0 partition for scratch data (/tmp, /var/tmp, |
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> > /usr/portage, scratch data). |
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> I have /tmp and /var/tmp on tmpfs - /tmp is so small it is not worth wasting a |
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> partition for it. |
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/tmp --- maybe now (4GB ram). /var/tmp - not sure (OpenOffice compile |
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comes to mind here :-) |
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Ciao, |
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Wolfgang |
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