On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > >>> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > >>> highly-partitioned, like this: > >>> > > > > ----- >8 snip > > > >> > >> I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1 > >> recommendation to take care of the numbers question. > >> > > > > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. > > > > I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a > shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part > of the group... ;-) >
Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-) > Seriously though, I've done enough RAID (0,1,5 & 6) recently to at > least feel comfortable setting it up. I'm much more worried about > whether I'll be able to handle it when it eventually breaks down. None > the less, with LVM on top of RAID I think I'd get past a lot of > limitations that I run into, and you may, when I picked a certain size > and 1 year down the road it turns out my needs changed. > Well, if the numbers I've chosen prove to be off the mark, I'll just tarball everything and rebuild :-P In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some LVM goodness... Rgds,
