On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:32 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't > > allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array > > Create a raid 5 array of the whole disk set and then put LVM across it. You > can then create logical volumes within the LVM volume group, and these > are the equivalent of partitions. > > Remember to have a non raid 5 partition for /boot (eg, either RAID1 or > just a plain disk partition (ugh)), because IIRC, neither grub nor lilo > can cope with booting from software RAID5.
Okay, how about this (hopefully it makes sense): sda1 raid1 raid5 sda2 raid1 raid5 sda3 raid1 raid5 md0 (raid1) ext3 /boot md1 (raid5) crypt crypt (md1) LVM LVM ext3 / swap So the 2 logical volumes are in a volume group which is on a dmcrypt partition which is on a RAID5 volume. That is a mess, and looks like trouble. I tried it though, and the encryption setup fails, with an error that the swap space is unsafe. It looks safe to me... Still, I'd rather just put two partitions in a dmcrypt volume. Debian-installer won't let me. Will is be possible later? Is it possible in the first place? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
