On Sunday, May 04, 2014 11:15:22 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Do I have to change things because it's better that way, is it worth the > effort ... ? Should I go away from RAID because LVM could stripe/mirror > by itself? Should I go away from LVM because it's kinda old technology? > ... all these things to consider.
I wouldn't use the stripe/mirror support in LVM as I don't think it is used often and I feel that functionality doesn't belong in LVM. If you want to move it all into a single layer, I would suggest ZFS instead. > And then you get into issues with block sizes and stuff, where I always > wonder why *I* have to type all these parameters ... why doesn't modern > software just come with this knowledge inside? > > .... you know > > *sigh* ;-) I agree, and I feel that has actually improved over time with modern tools defaulting to 4k sectors. > >> I am not so far to skip the initramfs -> I don't *know* that, I > >> just tested removing the line from grub2 and it failed finding the > >> root-fs. > > > > I've never had an initramfs, seeing no need in my case to keep /usr > > on its own partition. > > I don't have that either ... Then it should work, provided you have all the required drivers inside your kernel and not as modules. I also believe an initramfs is needed when using LABELs for the root-fs. > >> For booting from a plain partition on an SSD I think I shouldn't > >> need an initramfs? Does it have to do with MBR/GPT as well (the SSD > >> is still/again MBR, as UEFI booting broke badly for me back then) > >> ? > > > > As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is > > having a separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - > > sorry. > > As mentioned: I don't know if it has any benefits in my case. > > My desktop once was set up to boot gentoo via UEFI (Grub2), worked OK, > then something happened and I spent hours to fix it, then went back to > BIOS/MBR. I just thought I could set that up now that I clean through my > disks and partitioning. > > One of my thinkpads boots via UEFI, that was rather straight to set up > and works fine. At the moment, I don't see, from a simple user perspective, any real difference between booting using UEFI and BIOS/MBR. -- Joost
