On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:12 -0800, Anton Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> 
> First make sure your BIOS RAID is disabled, there should be a way to
> present the drives as native SATA disks.
> You don't need /boot if you are using md RAID 1 without LVM. If you
> are using LVM or another RAID level you need /boot as a separate
> partition/mount point.
> Don't create a single large partition that you RAID. Instead
> create multiple real partition RAIDed into multiple md devices.
> With LVM:
> sda1 = small partition for /boot
> sda2 = large partition for LVM
> sdb1 = small partition for /boot
> sdb2 = large partition for LVM
> md0 = sda1 + sdb1 for /boot
> md1 = sda2 + sdb2 for LVM

+ 1 Use this configuration.

You can break out swap if you want:

md0: /boot (sda1 + sdb1)
md1: swap (sda2 + sdb2)
md2: LVM (sda3 + sdb3)
   VG/LV: /
   VG/LV: /home
   ...etc...

Some people feel that avoiding LVM for swap gives a modicrum of
performance improvement - but unless you are tearing up the I/O you
won't notice.

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Adam Tauno Williams

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