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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6 for / ?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:00:35
Message-Id: 4D067AFD.3080205@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6 for / ? by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 2010-12-11 00:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:26 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >
4 >>> Since / only needs about 200MB, space isn't really an issue, and RAID1
5 >>> gives the highest redundancy. The main reason I don't put / on a
6 >>> higher RAID level is that it adds the complication of another
7 >>> filesystem and partition on each drive. / + one LVM keeps it nice and
8 >>> simple.
9 >>
10 >> OK, I see your point. My / is usually bigger, it seems that you use
11 >> other/more separate partitions/LVs for stuff like /var etc.
12 >
13 > Of course. If you're going to use LVM, you may as well put everything on
14 > it.
15
16 Set it up today.
17
18 small RAID1 for boot (6 devices)
19
20 32 gigs RAID6 for / (right now it's all in there... /var etc ... just to
21 keep it simple for the start)
22
23 the rest (aside from swap) went into a LVM-VG (sorry, folks)
24
25 I will learn about bind-mounts on my testboxes, for the customer I
26 decided to stay with what I know so far.
27
28 And, yes, I took care of chunks, stride, and stripes .... ;-)
29
30 Thanks all .. Stefan