Hi, I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes:
1) MythTV server 2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build 3) Wife's new desktop Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high reliability I'd like to do software RAID with (I think) LVM on top of that. I've not decided yet exactly what RAID type to use, and I know nothing about LVM, so I'm reading here to learn: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/LVM http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root which seems sensible. From an install point of view I'm wondering about RAID and how I should treat /, /boot and swap? As I'm planning on software RAID it seems that maybe those part of the file system should not even be part of RAID. Is that sensible? I always want / available to mount the directories above. /boot on RAID means (I guess) that I'd need RAID in the kernel instead of modular, and why do I need swap on RAID? The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. If the machine has a hardware problem and is down for a day or two that's not going to be a big problem as long as the Myth recordings, my wife's home directory and the backups I'm doing and placing on the machine are relatively safe. the processor is going to be WAY overkill with 8 cores but it hardly makes financial sense to go smaller as maybe I can even run some computer cycles on it, like building binary packages for my other machines or something like that. Interested in whatever thoughts folks have about the best way to set this up. If I haven't outlined the requirements well enough let me know. I'm at least a week from starting to build the hardware so there's no rush on this but maybe comments will effect motherboard selection, etc. Thanks, Mark
