On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:03:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:24:54 -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: >> To be honest I'm very disappointed about this (*put on asbestos underwear*) >> immature implementation. Suppose I have a HUGE RAID that I want to create two >> dozens of partitions on. That would mean I need to create physical partitions >> on ALL drives involved, and later combine them using raidtab. > >Use LVM, that is the real way people deal with huge RAID arrays in real
We're not talking about "huge" arrays in this case. I just need RAID1 (mirroring.) (We have two hardware RAIDs for our fileserver, so I'm not going to use software RAID for "huge" filesystems.) Would you recommend LVM anyway? So that I can "partition" the /dev/md0 device? >life. Partitions just aren't flexible enough. But be careful with your >root device, anything other than simple RAID1 will give you trouble there >(as in it is not impossible, but it is non-trivial to arrange the kernel to >boot from it). I will have the kernel on a separate ext2 /boot partition that's not being mirrored. >Do notice that you must have the LVM device ON TOP of RAID, not the other >way around. Sure, everything else would be quite strange. :-) Thanks for your comments. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
