Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-09 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:30 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > } On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > [...] > } Exactly what I was wondering. Hopefully debian-installer will allow > } creation of multiple partitio

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: } On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: [...] } Exactly what I was wondering. Hopefully debian-installer will allow } creation of multiple partitions in a single RAID array when Etch is } released. (Until then, I h

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:45:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Yes, I had considered doing that. And I'm sorry to keep harping on the > > same question, but I thought that RAID5 was capable of having multiple > > partitions in one arr

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:45:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > Yes, I had considered doing that. And I'm sorry to keep harping on the > same question, but I thought that RAID5 was capable of having multiple > partitions in one array; is it? Hmmm. I didn't think it was possible, but evidentally i

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:27 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > So, is it not possible to have multiple RAID5 partitions, or is this a > > temporary limitation of debian-installer? > > I might have misinterpreted your question earlie

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > So, is it not possible to have multiple RAID5 partitions, or is this a > temporary limitation of debian-installer? I might have misinterpreted your question earlier as "creating multiple partitions within a single RAID5 array", whic

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:32 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't > > allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array > > Create a raid 5 array of the whole disk set and

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:32 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't > > allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array > > Create a raid 5 array of the whole disk set and

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:43:36PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't > allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array Create a raid 5 array of the whole disk set and then put LVM across it. You can then create logical volumes within th