| Matthew Rosewarne on 14 Jun 2007 02:56:58 -0000 |
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On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Doug Crompton wrote: > I had planned on /boot being outside of lvm in it's own partition. If you want to run RAID, LVM, etc, this is necessary. > So I would make two primary partitions - /boot and the container for lvm ? > > The rest of the filesystems would be in lvm > > Should swap be in lvm? Yes, there's no real difference in performance. > Then I would make two raid 1 partitions - md0 for /boot an md1 for lvm. > > Is this a proper? good? method. Works well enough for me. > Another question I have is filesystems. Suse defaults to ext3, with a note > that it is more reliable I believe. I am sure there are many differing > opinions on this. I have been using ext3 in my old server without > problems for years. It seems reiserfs is often used. Any thoughts? I use ext3 on my backup server, but everywhere else I use a more "modern" filesystem. Usually XFS on desktops & servers for the performance, and JFS on latops for its low CPU usage. I used to use reiserfs, but development on v3 has stopped, and the future of v4 is highly uncertain. Attachment:
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