Hi Travis.Yeah I know i have setup a few reinser 4 systems I should have stated the boot and swap also in the setup (Also i always use Ext2 for boot)
You need to make sure, that Reiser 4 is compiled into the kernel, like ext2 and 3, and is not a module. Or you need to make sure to put it in initrd, check mkinitrd. Now i see you want to make the system boot from a software raid, that complicates it even more, you need to the same with the software raid module ....
I reality, creating a non-raid and plain ext3 root and boot will not reduce your system viability in a significant manner.This system I want to be a sweeeet gaming and all around box, security will not be to important with this computer as it has 2 good firewalls and it will mostly just sit not being used (The little ol'celeron beside it will probably get more use) And it will be a one user system (not including root) so there is no worry if i fill up all the partion rather than a small part because this system will be able to take downtime to to fix
I would also advise to have a separate boot partition, just a 100 megs or so.Its not a server so var is not very important in having its own partion for security (or so i understand) and as above i dont care about the partion filling up becuase of something stupid really filling up tmp
The third advice is.:
Dont glob all the system in /
you should have /var and /tmp in separate partitions. I see you want /home in a separate disk, that is good.
I havent yet started setting up the box but it will be a custom compiled kernel with the mm patches (or should i use the wolk patches?)
http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html http://lists.progeny.com/archive/progeny-debian/200110/msg00007.html http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q11
or you will get something like this http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/11/msg00019.html
check
cat /boot/config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl see that your kernel config file will be called differently.
And i need to make sure I setup reinser 4 support which needs things like 4kb threads (or something like that) _and_ frame pointers to be unchecked <-- I need to remember that
mine is
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
that is, reiser is a module, i will need reiser compiled-in (y) and-or boot not reiser and not raid.
Yeah, Quick question what advantages is there to having modules rather than being compiled in? just a bigger kernel size with them compiled in?
you also need to check # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=m CONFIG_LVM_PROC_FS=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=m
as you see, i could not have booted from a configuration like yours with my current, factory kernel, I will likely need all the above compile-in (y)
The kernel would have no ability to access the filesystem to load additional modulesYeah i know this :P
I dont know if you have installed gentoo but if you have do you think the Gentoo Reiser4 LiveCD 1.4.4-edge from http://lxnay.dnsalias.org/livecd-iso/index.php I have used the disk before for reinser 4 but not for a _working_ raid lol
you may also need to look around for the module that will drive the promise card and compile that in as well, just for good measure :-) the less it will work as a generic hw-raid, but looking at what you are after, you would like to have a specific module for that :-)
Travis R.
Thanks for the help :)
I hope that was clear enough Cheers
Szemir
On February 12, 2005 23:45, Travis Rousseau wrote:
Hello? anyone there?
Travis R.
Travis Rousseau wrote:
Gentoo install on a system with 6 hard drives the setup i want is as follows
4 X 37GB Raptors setup with a promise card in a software raid 0 for / with Reinser 4 2 X 120GB maxors setup in a software raid 0 for /home using Reinser 4
The reason i want a Gentoo install is because i have installed many systems (Debian. Slackware, Gentoo, Redhat, Suse) just to name the top ones and I find Gentoo and Slackware to be the fastest (in my opinion) and i find Gentoo and Debian have the best package managers (Again in my opinion) so would like to setup my main computer with it instead of any others
Ok now a bit about me to help you help me I have installed many (18+) Gentoo systems I know how to install the developers method or whatever its called for Gentoo I have configured many 2.6.8+ kernels (50+) I have installed Gentoo using Reinser 4 as a file system a few times (2) I have never got a Gentoo system with a raid setup working (able to boot) I'm really used to lilo I'm new to grub (Well kinda)(i was told i would almost certainly need this for my choice of setup) I think Gentoo would make this setup quite insane
Does anyone have advice for this setup I would like?( I know there is a couple kernel options i need to select like for raid 0 and my promise card and Reiser 4 {I plan on using the MM patches} and I know a hardware raid would be best but i would like to do this first)
If i posted my grub after my install do you think that any of you could point out what i _may_ have wrong if it does not boot?
Comments?
Travis R.
[Note: currently the system has 2 raptors and 2 maxors currently but 2 raptors are in the plans to be added on Tuesday when i can get a better power supply]
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