My new computer has (2) 300G and (2) 200G hard drives. As I see it , using LVM and RAID a good setup might be to partitioln and combine as follows:
hda 1 200G 2 99G 3 1G hdb 1 200G 2 99G 3 1G hdc 1 200G hdd 1 200G Then combine hda2, and hdb2 into a raid1. Then combine hdx2 into a raid 5. Further I would use these arrays in LVM so that the raid1 is used for kernel level things and the raid5 for user and storage locations. I am not sure where some of these should end up however. I am sure /home should go on the raid5 and /boot and /etc on the raid1, but the others like /usr and /var, I am unsure where I should put them. hdx3 would be used for swap partitions. Any suggestions to this plan would be helpful. Damon ----- Start Original Message ----- From: Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Damon Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RLUG] LVM and RAID > Damon, > > I use LVM on top of SW RAID all the time. It a very easy setup. Here are > two "howto" docs I use all the time: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml (the software RAID > section) > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml > > Gentoo configuration of RAID and LVM2 maps 1:1 with all other Linux > distros. > > I'm currently running LVM2 on top of SW RAID 5 on 2 machines -- soon to be > 4. Performance is excellent... for the cost. > > - Sebastian > > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Damon Jacobsen wrote: > > > Is there a way to combine LVM usage with software raid? I would like to get > > the easy drive remapping of LVM with the added benefit of increased > > throughput and mirroring of raid. My Nvidia 4 chipset allows a mock raid > > system, but research shows that using linux raid utils is faster. > > > > Thanks > > Damon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > ----- End Original Message ----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
