Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

[Dale]

Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> fyi, as someone who has played around quite a bit with most of the
> ways to configure a home workstation, I find the best config currently
> is:
>
> Dedicated Fast Enterprise 2TB drive -> /, swap,  and /boot (ext4)
> Six 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in RAID10 -> /home (ext4 with appropriate
> chunksize/etc)
> Two 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in LVM VG -> /archive, other lvm volumes
> I can afford to lose and may need to change sizes for.
>
> No worrying about any bootup complications/initrd or seperate /usr or
> /var on workstation, all the important personal data is on reliable
> storage, lots of free space for big projects. Backups are on separate
> disks from data.
> Ext4 over RAID seem happier without lvm. Maybe a few years down the
> road btrfs will be complete, I'll be able to switch to that.
>
> Only complications of above is a) careful monitoring of boot disk, b)
> with so many drives, chassis needs good air flow/power, and c) unless
> /tmp or /var put on lvm, all gentoo compiles are limited by i/o of
> boot disk (this isn't a problem for me now, but perhaps when I upgrade
> to faster cpus with more cores..).
>


That would work IF I could afford all those drives.  Right now, I have
three and one of them was given to me by another Gentoo user.  I did
find a security system that has a 500Gb drive that I may use.  Videos on
a drive made for videos should work fine.  lol

Also, I have a Cooler Master case with lots of fans, large ones too.

Dale

:-)  :-)


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