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Wolfgang Liebich wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> OK - nearly everyone here (and at work, too) told me to forget the |
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> onboard fake raid controller. So this is what I will do :-) |
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> The RAID-Howto as well as the LVM howto are however woefully out of |
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> date. I will try to work with the linux-raid website's info. |
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> Basically I plan to do: |
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> - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 |
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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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> but it seems safer to let root be an own partition. Or are there any |
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> different opinions here? I'm very interested in hearing experiences... |
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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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> Any comments? Obviously insane? :-) Don't think so. |
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> - Wolfgang |
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Likewhoa has a nice writedown of raid and LVM2 on gentoo forums |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-702681-highlight-likewhoa+recipe.html?sid=e9df56d90808ed712323ca693936a004. |
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Using that it should be easy enough to adjust to your needs. |
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Greets jormaa |
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