howdie folks, me again... I have a new server to install here, it's a modern board with an adaptec sata RAID that is not seen by a vanilla Debian kernel. I decided to stick to stock kernels to simplify administration and therefore disabled the RAID, got the two disks to show as SATA again (hde and hdg) and went on to partition them for my needs.
I was told the 2.6 kernels support partitioning an MD device but this does not seem to work right in the debian-installer, so I'm building two partitions for each final partition, making individual MD-devices and all. this DOES free me from pre-defining the entire space as raid1. I can have swap partitions without RAID and the backup directory as RAID0 instead of RAID1 for instance. questions - 1. Is that the best methodology to follow? any other recommendations? 2. Am I risking anything by installing reiser3 (kernel 2.6.8) on an MD device? your insights will be of great value! Thanks, Ira. -- True. Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
