Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > > > OK - nearly everyone here (and at work, too) told me to forget the > onboard fake raid controller. So this is what I will do :-) > The RAID-Howto as well as the LVM howto are however woefully out of > date. I will try to work with the linux-raid website's info. > > Basically I plan to do: > - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the > root partition get's to small), > but it seems safer to let root be an own partition. Or are there any > different opinions here? I'm very interested in hearing experiences... > - Build a RAID1 partition for the rest of the system (will be a LVM2 > container) > - Build a last RAID0 partition for scratch data (/tmp, /var/tmp, > /usr/portage, scratch data). > > Any comments? Obviously insane? :-) Don't think so. > - Wolfgang > > > Likewhoa has a nice writedown of raid and LVM2 on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-702681-highlight-likewhoa+recipe.html?sid=e9df56d90808ed712323ca693936a004.
Using that it should be easy enough to adjust to your needs. Greets jormaa
