Am 09.12.2010 18:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Put /boot on raid1, / on raid6. Don't bother with lvm - it is just > another layer that can go wrong.
You mean "don't use lvm for /" ? ... for other stuff it's very useful, isn't it? ;-) I never put / on lvm, yep. > If Raid6 is like raid5 you should be > able to have the kernel auto assemble everything, so no initrd is > needed. Pay attention to the metadata format when creating the raid. > Also have a look at stripe sizes. And stripe_cache_size. Thanks for your reminders. What exactly do you think of with stripes and sizes? You point at the performance-impact? large files vs. small files etc? Thanks, Stefan
