On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > > > parition > > > > Agree. > > Only partly, with a somewhat recent boot CD you won't have any > problems mounting LVM on RAID or doing the necessary recovery tasks. > The debian Etch (even netinst iirc) has all the necessary tools. > > > However, I personally use a much smaller root, say 1G or less, and > > then have /usr, /var (and possibly some others depending on the > > purpose of the machine) inside LVM. > > For that reason i keep as much as possible in LVM. Maintenance just is > easier when you find you ran out of space on some partition and simply > can lvresize it. But I guess that is just personal preference > > > I have avoided LVM mirroring because as far as I am aware the > > machine would not come up entirely without human intervention if a > > drive would be lost - please correct me if I am wrong there.. > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm more in this field than LVM > (don't ask me why - I couldn't logically say why). it would be good to here from somebody that uses lvm mirroring. I would like to access some of that extra space that would be made available if I did mirroring at the lvm level instead of the md level. > > martin > > -- > http://noneisyours.marcher.name > http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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