Re: preseed software raid, one device with many partitions?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:42:11PM +0000, Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote:
> Looking over the preseed docs for setting up software raid, it looks like you
> need to create a separate raid device for each partition? I'm a software
> raid newb, and I've only set it up a couple times going through d-i
> manually.
>
> What I'm looking to do is create one raid device containing all of sda and
> sdb. Then partition that device up into /boot,/,/home etc. From the preseed
> docs, it looks like they cut up the disks so each partition is its own raid
> device.
>
> Am I reading the docs wrong?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en
>
> FWIW OS is lenny.
You could use LVM instead of partitions to split the raid. It is a lot
more flexible than partitions.
So if you create one partition per drive and make the raid on that
and then setup LVM on the raid device and create logical volumes for
everything on the LVM you should have a great setup.
Now you might have to keep either / or /boot outside LVM. Not sure what
the state of grub support is for that. I currently have my setup so that
/ is a seperate raid from the raid device LVM uses for everything else.
--
Len Sorensen
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