Re: LVM root?

[dtutty@porchlight.ca]

Thanks Len,

comments embedded below.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:26:53AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:20:58PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
 > 
> > The board itself has hardware SATA raid available.  If I go for raid,
> > then I'll ask here for the advantages/disadvantages.
> 
> Unless you have a high end server board, you do not have onboard
> hardware raid.  You have onboard fake raid (which is software raid done
> in the bios and the windows driver).  Linux's software raid is faster,
 
Board is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (AM2), says it has hardware raid
(Raid0,raid1, raid0+1, raid 5, and JBOD via the onboard NVIDIA
MediaShield RAID controller.  This sounds like hardware raid to me and
is configured via the bios menus.

> > More to the point for me, though, is where can I get current howtos or
> > guides on fixing problems when things are in raid or LVM?  Its a whole
> > new world for me and the LDP HOWTOs are too out of date, and
> > debian-reference doesn't cover it.  
> 
> The installer supports setting it all up.  It isn't very hard...

Can you give me either a URL or a thumbnail sketch of how to deal with a
disk failure if I set it up as you suggest?


You suggest ext3 for the / system.  Why would I not just use JFS for
everything?

Thanks,

Doug.