-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Hi Lenz, ... > That all looks very sensible. I don't see a big problem with > repartitioning non-LVM disks myself (shrink, lower partition boundary, > create/resize filesystem above new boundary), but with LVM it would be a > tad easier and somewhat safer.
Indeed. > After too many disasters I always use raid1 though for / and /home, > perhaps others, but not for /data, because the play area and collection > of ISOs doesn't need it. Although there are voices to the contrary, I've > had good experience with Linux soft raid. Me too, I have everything in (software) RAID1. mdadm has been really solid for me so far. > How stable is, in your opinion, the soft raid1 (or raid5) combined with > LVM when something fails somewhere? Rock-solid for me. There are just a couple of annoying bugs in YaST2's partitioner we should get rid of before pushing those options to a wider public (e.g. as the default setup/proposal). I don't recall 100%, but from what I remember: when you want to combine RAID1 and LVM, in YaST2, you first have to create the RAID1 (obviously). Then, don't assign it (/dev/md0) anywhere ! It is assigned by default AFAICR, so you have to explicitly remove the assignments. Then go to LVM and there are a few glitches with selecting RAID1 as a PV for LVM too.. I think... sorry, can't explain it in detail, I just had to jump through a few hoops and don't remember it. There's also a *very* annoying bug with YaST2, when you resize partitions, YaST2 will never allow you to do so on a mounted filesystem, although it works perfectly well on the CLI - at least with LVM + reiserfs or XFS (lvresize && resize_reiserfs). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEgM5rr3NMWliFcXcRAoHzAJ4420Cjel1T9O1wl5U7aU7QWnKOTQCdGpa9 9L8CVvlP+7U3xhO04R2blPs= =RINF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
