Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:19:50PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/10/18, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > > > multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm m

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > > very easy to get access to root in emergency when

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/18, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > > multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm more in this field than LVM > > (don't ask me why - I couldn't logically sa

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > > very easy to get access

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Alex, > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > > parition > > Agree. Only partly, wit

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Alex, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > parition Agree. However, I personally use a much smaller root, say 1G or less, and then have /u

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/10/17, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 4 partitions to make up 4 md's > > > > > > md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 > > md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 > > md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 > > md3 LVM PV sda4 +

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/17, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4 partitions to make up 4 md's > > > md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 > md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 > md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 > md3 LVM PV sda4 + sdb4 > > from the PV I make a VG and then lots of LV's > > I have used this sort of

raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
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