On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:54:02PM -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > Good points all. I did leave about 9 GiB free in unallocated LVM > space to extend these if needed, but I may as well put that to use and > resize later as needed. I'm thinking I'll double each of the above.
It is certainly always easier to add than to remove from a logical volume. > (This system will be the root node of a cluster, so there will be > plenty of other disks, but this disk is the newest, largest, and > quietest, and resides on the fastest machine with the most RAM. So I > realise now that I may as well sacrifice mass /home storage for system > operations space, and leave the slower disks & machines for all the > data hoarding.) > > Thanks very much for all your suggestions; they certainly made the > entire installation report process worthwhile. :) I'll do another > install later to take them into account, but I don't forsee running > into any additional issues. > > One last thing: I'll also be testing out the OpenSSI software and > seeing how it fares on the 2.6 kernel, but I may need to also change > to a 2.4 on my next install. > > I recall that (experimentally) booting a 2.6 install with a Debian 2.4 > kernel resulted in a "udev requires 2.6" message. What will I end up > with for /dev if I do a 2.4 install? Old-style static, or devfs? > Just wondering what to expect. You should end up with a static /dev I believe. Only the installer uses devfs as far as I am aware. Personally I am not convinced anything is worth going back to 2.4 for. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
