also sprach lee [2009.07.12.0057 +0200]:
> Well, I gave the RAID a name, but that name got lost ... and it still
> has p designation, with kernel 2.6.30.
If you're asking a question, you should include all relevant
details.
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:40:02PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:04:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> > comes down to how much you value your data.
>
> It comes down to how much money you can spend on securing it.
just about the same thing
>
> > My home server has 10 x 1T dri
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:44:30PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > You can still decide if you want a partitionable or non-partitionable
> > RAID, thus not all RAIDs are partitionable since kernel
> > 2.6.29. Unfortunately, the man page doesn't seem to say what the
> > default is for the partitio
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:04:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> comes down to how much you value your data.
It comes down to how much money you can spend on securing it.
> My home server has 10 x 1T drives in it a mix of raid1 + raid5 +
> raid6, I have a second server with 9 x 1T drives in it (in
This is how I do it on Debian Etch:
RAID:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#raid
LVM:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#lvm
The same process works fine for Debian Lenny (I just haven't gotten my
Lenny guide written yet) apart
Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach thveillon.debian
>> [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]:
>>> It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny
>>> and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as
>>
also sprach Roger Leigh [2009.07.10.0131 +0200]:
> > grub2 can boot LVM just as well as it can boot RAID1 or RAID5.
>
> Is this stable for production use, or still in the experimental
> stage?
It's non-default in lenny still, but it works. That's all I can tell
you, sorry.
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.''`. martin f
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach thveillon.debian
> [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]:
> > It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny
> > and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as
> > straightforward, mayb
[snip]
> > > > what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive
> > > > dies ? I could understand not wanting to put it on lvm and then raid1.
> > >
> > > When the swap partition quits working, the system might stop
> > > working. So the question is what's more important,
also sprach thveillon.debian [2009.07.09.2215
+0200]:
> It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny
> and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as
> straightforward, maybe not even possible at this point (to be
> double-checked anyway).
grub2 c
also sprach lee [2009.07.09.2204 +0200]:
>-a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN}
> Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed,
> possibly allocating an unused minor number. "md" causes
> a non-partitionable array to be used. "mdp", "part"
lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
>>In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be
>>separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the
>>bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point.
>>K
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be
>separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the
>bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point.
>Keeping it separate
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:42:16AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach lee [2009.07.09.0707 +0200]:
> > Why do you need LVM?
>
> LVM offers features that RAID does not. If you want those features,
> you need LVM.
Yeah, but that wasn't what I was asking. I tried to find out what
features
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:43:13PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:19:44AM -0600, lee wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> >
> > > > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal.
> > >
> > > what happens if there is some
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:34:13AM +0700, Vilasith Phonepadith wrote:
>
> I am trying with LVM+RAID, and I did some tests. I need your help for the
> installation of Lenny.
>
> Problem: I have to install Debian with the requirements as follow:partition:
> use the system of LVM for partitionning
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:19:44AM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> > > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal.
> >
> > what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive
> > dies ? I could understan
also sprach lee [2009.07.09.0707 +0200]:
> Why do you need LVM?
LVM offers features that RAID does not. If you want those features,
you need LVM.
> The RAID array must be partitionable, which is an option you
> eventually need to specify when creating it. I don't know what the
[...]
> To clarify
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal.
>
> what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive
> dies ? I could understand not wanting to put it on lvm and then raid1.
When the swap par
Hi,
here are some LVM basics to get you started..
http://www.linuxconfig.org/Linux_lvm_-_Logical_Volume_Manager
lubos
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Serge van
Ginderachter wrote:
> 2009/7/9 Alex Samad :
>
>>> Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. It is
>>> better to
2009/7/9 Alex Samad :
>> Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. It is
>> better to create a swap partition on each of the physical devices and
>> give them the same priority (in /etc/fstab). That's only one example,
>> you could also use a disk that isn't part of the RAID
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:16:04PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:13:25PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> > md0 = sda1 + sdb1
> > md1 = sda2 + sdb2
> > md3 = sda3 + sdb3
> >
> > md0 = /boot (ext2)
> > md1 = / (ext3)
> > md2 = lvm physical device
> >
> > Then on LVM
> >
> > size of
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:13:25PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> md0 = sda1 + sdb1
> md1 = sda2 + sdb2
> md3 = sda3 + sdb3
>
> md0 = /boot (ext2)
> md1 = / (ext3)
> md2 = lvm physical device
>
> Then on LVM
>
> size of memory = swap partition
> 1G = ext3 mount point /var/log
>
> Then chop up th
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:34:13AM +0700, Vilasith Phonepadith wrote:
> Problem: I have to install Debian with the requirements as
> follow:partition: use the system of LVM for partitionning the
> serversif possible on the Disk RAID1 Mirroring I don't understand
> well and don't know how to start.
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:34:13AM +0700, Vilasith Phonepadith wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying with LVM+RAID, and I did some tests. I need your help for the
> installation of Lenny.
>
> Problem: I have to install Debian with the requirements as follow:partition:
> use the system of LVM for p
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