Hi, <SNIP> > > the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me.
I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev that for me? > > > > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the > > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the > > root partition get's to small), > > yeah, but if you have 20+ gb root is always big enough ;) AFAIK lvm kills > barriers. You use raid for better data security. So using lvm is a bit.. > contra productive. Sorry, I'm neither a LVM nor a RAID export - could you please elaborate on that? I like LVM because of the convenience it adds. > > > > - Build a RAID1 partition for the rest of the system (will be a LVM2 > > container) > > - Build a last RAID0 partition for scratch data (/tmp, /var/tmp, > > /usr/portage, scratch data). > > I have /tmp and /var/tmp on tmpfs - /tmp is so small it is not worth wasting > a > partition for it. /tmp --- maybe now (4GB ram). /var/tmp - not sure (OpenOffice compile comes to mind here :-) Ciao, Wolfgang
