Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?
Christophe Chisogne <christophe@publicityweb.com> writes:
> Frans Pop wrote:
>> I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the
>> status is. How well has the new code been tested?
>
> I had very serious issues with lvm management (Etch d-i beta2 and 2006-06-12).
>
> My config looks like the following.
>
> RAID 1 /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1) on /boot
> RAID 1 /dev/md1 (/dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) on /
> RAID 1 /dev/md2 (/dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3) as lvm volume (lvs for /usr, /var...)
>
> By not using root on lvm on raid, I naively thought that it'll avoid
> boot problems etc, but I was very wrong.
If your / is not on lvm (and I never do that) then you don't need a
/boot partition. I would merge md0 and md1.
You might also want swap near the start of the disks for greater speed
(test that though, some disks are the reverse).
Just 2c worth of thought,
Goswin
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