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On Sunday, May 04, 2014 11:15:22 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Do I have to change things because it's better that way, is it worth the |
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> effort ... ? Should I go away from RAID because LVM could stripe/mirror |
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> by itself? Should I go away from LVM because it's kinda old technology? |
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> ... all these things to consider. |
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I wouldn't use the stripe/mirror support in LVM as I don't think it is used |
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often and I feel that functionality doesn't belong in LVM. |
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If you want to move it all into a single layer, I would suggest ZFS instead. |
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> And then you get into issues with block sizes and stuff, where I always |
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> wonder why *I* have to type all these parameters ... why doesn't modern |
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> software just come with this knowledge inside? |
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> .... you know |
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> *sigh* ;-) |
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I agree, and I feel that has actually improved over time with modern tools |
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defaulting to 4k sectors. |
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> >> I am not so far to skip the initramfs -> I don't *know* that, I |
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> >> just tested removing the line from grub2 and it failed finding the |
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> >> root-fs. |
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> > I've never had an initramfs, seeing no need in my case to keep /usr |
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> > on its own partition. |
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> I don't have that either ... |
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Then it should work, provided you have all the required drivers inside your |
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kernel and not as modules. |
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I also believe an initramfs is needed when using LABELs for the root-fs. |
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> >> For booting from a plain partition on an SSD I think I shouldn't |
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> >> need an initramfs? Does it have to do with MBR/GPT as well (the SSD |
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> >> is still/again MBR, as UEFI booting broke badly for me back then) |
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> >> ? |
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> > As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is |
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> > having a separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - |
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> > sorry. |
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> As mentioned: I don't know if it has any benefits in my case. |
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> My desktop once was set up to boot gentoo via UEFI (Grub2), worked OK, |
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> then something happened and I spent hours to fix it, then went back to |
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> BIOS/MBR. I just thought I could set that up now that I clean through my |
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> disks and partitioning. |
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> One of my thinkpads boots via UEFI, that was rather straight to set up |
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> and works fine. |
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At the moment, I don't see, from a simple user perspective, any real difference |
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between booting using UEFI and BIOS/MBR. |
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