Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: >> Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> [...] >>> >>> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >>> green drives. [] >>> - Mark >>> >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> What do you m

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: > Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >> green drives. [] >> - Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for > c

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH wrote: >> Mark Knecht schrieb: >>> >> > :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe > keeps me happy. :-) > > So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB > green drives. Now I just need to dec

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:29, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] I'm thinking I'll keep it as simple as possibly and just spread out the Gentoo install over the multiple hard drives without using RAID, but maybe not. It would be nice to have everything on RAID but I don't know if I should byte that off for my fi

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] - Mark Hi Mark, What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for confirmation - that those energy saving drives change spinning and

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >>    The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: >> >> /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root >> > > /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not sure about /bi

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: >> >> Hi, > > [...] >> >> 3) Wife's new desktop > > [...] >> >> I want high reliability > > [...] >> >> The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. > > [...] >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > For me it soun

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, [...] 3) Wife's new desktop [...] I want high reliability [...] The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. [...] Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, For me it sounds like those points just don't fit together ;-) Regards kh

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] > >The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: > > /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root > /boot shouldn't be there, either. Not sure about /bin > which seems sensible. From an install point of view I'm wonde

[gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
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 wit