Ronald Mansolino on 30 Aug 2005 12:30:31 -0000 |
> On 8/30/05, Rodney Oliver <roliver3@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible to create a RAID 1 array using two drives then LVM those > > drives? If so where can I find some good documentation with example > > partitioning schemes? > > Assuming you mean using Liinux software raid, sure, you can do that. > > When you create your LVM volume, instead of using a physical > partition, like say /dev/hda2, you'll just reference an md device, > like say /dev/md0. > > While it may be technically possible to raid your /boot, I'd recommend > you save the headaches and not bother with it. Same for swap, don't > use a raid for swap. > > If you're really serious about building it out "the right way", go > with a single drive that will house /boot and swap space, smallish, > like 2-4 gb. Add to that a hardware raid adapter and the drives. You > can use LVM on the RAID volume. Most distros seem to just make 3 > partitions these days, /boot, / and swap. There are plenty of reasons > to splinter the filesystem further, such as keeping /var and / apart > from /home so that user activity won't crash the box if they run their > filesystem out of space. what about /etc ? where/when does the stuff there come into play? what's a sensible strategy for a 3-disk (plus cdrom) ide chain? I sorta decided on / and everything but /usr /home and is it sensible to have swap on all 3 drives (close to the spindle?) BSD seems to divide the swap usage equally amongst all swap partitions, does linux do something similar? ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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