I recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that I'm using for vservers. I'm using Gentoo for the host and guests. Seems to work really great so far. I purchased 4 10k rpm 73G u320 drives and use them in a single raid5 partition. I then used LVM2 to partiion up the space.
Here's the output of fdisk -l : Disk /dev/sda: 219.8 GB, 219823472640 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26725 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 13 21 72292+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 22 508 3911827+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 509 26725 210588052+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 509 752 1959898+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 753 26725 208628091 8e Linux LVM As you can see, I have a partition for /boot, /, and swap. The rest is for LVM. I then divided up the LVM for the remainder of the system. Here's what lvdisplay shows: --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/usr VG Name vg LV UUID **I LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 10.01 GB Current LE 2563 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/home VG Name vg LV UUID ** LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 5.00 GB Current LE 1280 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/opt VG Name vg LV UUID ** LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 5.00 GB Current LE 1280 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/var VG Name vg LV UUID ** LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 10.00 GB Current LE 2560 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/tmp VG Name vg LV UUID ** LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 2.00 GB Current LE 512 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:4 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/vservers VG Name vg LV UUID ** LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 30.00 GB Current LE 7680 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:5 I still have lots of unused LVM space. I just expand my /vserver volume and any others as needed. Performance is great. Hope this helps your decision. On 2/14/06, Lars Hallberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Vilain wrote: > > > I hate that! Such a deep directory... besides, the unix conventions of > > var, /usr, etc, were made before this use case was considered (/com, > > anyone?). I think it deserves its own TLD (top level directory). > > /var/lib/vservers ... Have no problems with that... but i symlink it as > 'v' from /root :-) ... and /etc/vservers as 'e' :-) > > Thats Ubuntu... same as Debian I asume. > > /LaH > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
