Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:30:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:58:24PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > d-i can do software raid1 just fine. Just don't try to setup the
> > fakeraid in the bios, it won't use that, and you don't want to either.
> >
> > The way I tend to do it is:
> > make 3 partitions on each drive (identical) like:
> > sda1/sdb1 128M (for boot raid1)
> > sda2/sdb2 10G (for root raid)
>
> What's the benefit in splitting / and /boot, when both are on RAID1
> anyway? I have a 200G / on RAID1 with no issue at all (no /boot).
Ehm, until sometime early this year grub couldn't boot from raid, so I
used to manually mirror sda1 and sdb1 with dd everytime I made a change
to one of them. :( Now that you can run grub with raid1, there is no
good reason for seperate /boot anymore. Old habits die hard I guess. :)
> Also, don't forget swap. RAID1 is good for that too.
Hence why I have swap on lvm on raid (So I can resize swap if I want
to).
Len Sorensen
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