On 01/11/16 22:57, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Spanning devices seems to me to be more or less the same as RAID0
>> (striping), and just as risky
>
> The default is to concatenate PVs like RAID "linear" (JBOD), although
> LVM can do striping too.
True, but either way, removing one disk may damage a
On 01/11/16 19:04, Johann Spies wrote:
LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it again.
In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the disks
failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data.
I use LVM inside LUKS on a single device. This configuration is gr
Le 01/11/2016 à 14:07, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
The only times I put several PVs in a VG is when moving data between
disks:
Several PVs does not mean several disks.
A use case of multiple PVs per VG on one disk is when you want to create
several VGs (for whatever reason) and be able to exten
>> LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it
>> again. In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the
>> disks failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data.
> I don't think I've ever used it like that, and probably wouldn't. At
> least not unless the under
Le 01/11/2016 à 09:25, Richard Hector a écrit :
On 01/11/16 19:04, Johann Spies wrote:
LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it
again. In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the
disks failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data.
I don't think I'
On 01/11/16 19:04, Johann Spies wrote:
> LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it
> again. In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the
> disks failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data.
I don't think I've ever used it like that, and probably wouldn
On 1 November 2016 at 01:08, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > (am I an LVM fanboy ? Hmm, maybe)is better than life itself,
>
>
LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it again.
In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the disks
failed - leaving you with unreco
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 07:53:31PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 31/10/2016 à 14:54, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
> >
> >Of course, it's possible. But if you setup a system from scratch I'd
> >highly recommend you put "everything" into an LVM volume group so you
> >can then use an LVM volume for
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:54:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> PS: I put "everything" between quotes because I'm not sure I'd recommend
> to also put /boot in an LVM volume. IIUC it can be made to work
> nowadays, but my systems still use a two-partition setup: one small
> partit
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On Monday 2016-10-31 12:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
>Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:27:22
>From: Richard Owlett
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:27:22PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
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> omnia disci en tres partes est:
> primary
> extended
> logical
>
> Whither goest LVM?
Either ou go with Pascal's advice and use GPT, or, if you feel more
comfortable, you
Le 31/10/2016 à 19:45, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:27:22PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
primary
extended
logical
Whither goest LVM?
1) Use GPT partitioning and get rid of this obsolete distinction between
primary, extended and logical partition.
2) LVM can use
Le 31/10/2016 à 14:54, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
Of course, it's possible. But if you setup a system from scratch I'd
highly recommend you put "everything" into an LVM volume group so you
can then use an LVM volume for swap rather than a file (but with the
same advantages as using a file: it's e
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:27:22PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> To paraphrase Julius Caesar:
> omnia disci en tres partes est:
> primary
> extended
> logical
>
> Whither goest LVM?
LVM is a more flexible alternative to using a set of fixed-sized
partitions.
Under LVM, you create two (or
On 10/31/2016 8:54 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather
than a swap partition. Is that possible with Jessie?
Of course, it's possible. But if you setup a system from scratch I'd
highly recommend you put "everything" into an LVM volume grou
>>> I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather
>>> than a swap partition. Is that possible with Jessie?
Of course, it's possible. But if you setup a system from scratch I'd
highly recommend you put "everything" into an LVM volume group so you
can then use an LVM volume for
On 10/30/2016 9:15 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Le nonidi 9 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather than a swap
partition.
Is that possible with Jessie?
Please check: fallocate, mkswap, swapon, and tell us the result.
Regards,
On 10/30/2016 04:56 AM, Pol Hallen wrote:
> I bought a new notebook: i7 2.2Ghz, 8Gb ram and ssd 256Gb.
>
> Consider that small disk, can I install debian without swap? Does swap
> still useful?
For my SOHO LAN environment, I build my Debian Wheezy systems on a 16 GB
SSD with 10% over-provisioning
Servus Pascal,
> > I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather than a
> > swap partition.
> > Is that possible with Jessie?
Creating (and using) a swapfile is easy, no problem in Jessie:
sudo mkswap /swap.0
sudo swapon /swap.0
grep swap /etc/fstab
/swap.0 swap
Le 30/10/2016 à 17:41, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit :
RAM disks (tmpfs)
Tmpfs and ramdisks are very different.
A tmpfs is a filesystem in virtual memory (in RAM or swap) with variable
size.
A ramdisk is a block device (not a filesystem) in RAM with fixed size.
On 31/10/16 00:56, Pol Hallen wrote:
I bought a new notebook: i7 2.2Ghz, 8Gb ram and ssd 256Gb.
Consider that small disk, can I install debian without swap? Does swap
still useful?
I have not used swap since I switched to SSDs in 2009. This works only
if you are confident that you will never u
Le 30/10/2016 à 15:11, Richard Owlett a écrit :
On 10/30/2016 8:52 AM, Markus Grunwald wrote:
It migh be. Don't forget that you need some swap space if you want to
hibernate your System!
I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather than a
swap partition.
Is that possible w
On 10/30/2016 8:52 AM, Markus Grunwald wrote:
Hello Pol,
Does swap still useful?
It migh be. Don't forget that you need some swap space if you want to
hibernate your System!
(You can configure extra hibernation space. I never managed to get
that right...)
I once read that it was possible
Hello Pol,
> Does swap still useful?
It migh be. Don't forget that you need some swap space if you want to
hibernate your System!
(You can configure extra hibernation space. I never managed to get
that right...)
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Markus Grunwald
On 10/30/2016 06:56 AM, Pol Hallen wrote:
Good sunday to all :-)
I bought a new notebook: i7 2.2Ghz, 8Gb ram and ssd 256Gb.
Consider that small disk, can I install debian without swap? Does swap
still useful?
Yes, debian can be installed without swap. Whether swap is useful
depends on the
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