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On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:37:58 +0100, Jarry wrote: |
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> I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because |
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> I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to |
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> raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: |
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> /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) |
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> /dev/md1 / (2GB) |
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> /dev/md2 <swap> (2GB) |
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> /dev/md3 lvm2 (rest for /var /tmp /usr /opt /chroot /home) |
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I've been running a similar setup for 18 months, it works well. |
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> Is this generaly advisable solution (lvm2 over raid1), or is there |
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> some risk in using raid1 together with lvm2 ? |
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Not that I've heard of or discovered. |
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> One more question concerning partition type: |
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> If I want to use raid1, I have to set all those 2x4 (hda+hdc) primary |
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> partitions as type fd (raid autodetect). Is it not problem later for |
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> lvm2 when preparing and creating volume-group? Because lvm-guide says |
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> something about setting partition type to 8e (linux lvm), which I can |
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> not do, if I want to use raid1... |
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The disk partitions should be set to type fd, because they are RAID |
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partitions. LVM is running on the RAID array, not directly on the |
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partitions, so it doesn't have a problem with this. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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What animal & what bit? |
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