Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:01:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> You need an initrd or initramfs even if you compile a custom kernel. > > Why would you bother building your own kernel for most machines? Why > would you not use an initramfs?
Because it is way to fragile (fails half the time) and you can't use init=/bin/sh anymore. >> I like to boot into my / with init=/bin/sh, have an editor, netcat, >> the lvm tools and all that available to look around and fix things in >> case something does go wrong. With a standard initrd that is pretty >> much an impossibility and you need that for / on lvm. > > If the initramfs is done right (initramfs-tools seems to do the job > well), then you should still be able to boot and get at your root > filesystem and do that. Maybe I've been using the wrong tools back then (initramfs is somewhat new) but that never worked right for me. >> You can put swap on lvm. You should also think about suspend to disk, >> which needs enough swap to store all active memory. Twice your ram >> isn't a bad idea. Same as ram is pretty much a must. > > Why would anyone without a laptop care? Seems that some desktop users like to not shut down all their apps when they turn of the system for the night. >> You might want to stripe the volume for editing accross both >> disks. Lvm can do that without you having to resrot to raid0. Gives >> you more speed on file I/O. It's a per volume thing so you can keep >> /usr, /var, /home on the first disk and just stripe the editing LV >> when you get the 2nd disk. > > LVM can do that, but as soon as you start to add to the LVM later you > loose it. In general it isn't recommended to use the stripping features > in LVM. You do? That would be a bug or at least missing feture then. Recently there has been some work on raid support inside lvm (raid1 support was added) so I don't think it is totaly deprecated. > -- > Len Sorensen MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]