Fw: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody
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From: "Callide- Eagle Engineering" <eecallid@tpg.com.au>
To: <user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 9:25
Subject: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody
> Hi,
>
> Please cc me as I'm not on the list yet.
>
> I'll be soon setting up a server at work running debian woody (yes I've
been
> running it on a workstation for a month no problems) and will need to use
> software raid 5 on 3 scsi disks on top of which I would like to use the
SGI
> journalling file system.
>
> Is anyone on the list using this combination?
>
> If so any pointers for installation?
>
> 1. I thought the way I might start out would be to install the base system
> on an IDE drive and install a compilled kernel and tools required to set
up
> the raid and xfs file systems
>
> 2. Reboot the new kernel configure the raid array, partition the logical
> drive, format the file systems.
>
> 3 Reboot again transfer the relevant files across to the new root
partition
> on the raid array, edit fstab and lilo, make a boot floppy then boot off
> floppy, tell lilo to boot off the new root file system on the logical disk
> (raid array) at the lilo prompt and then run /sbin/lilo. (Will this work
> with the new array? Or should I have a copy of the boot partition on each
> disk?)
>
> Any better suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Peter Firmstone.
>
>
> N.B. we won't be using MS Outlook for much longer due to virus problems.
>
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