From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FEs9V-00064w-E6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:03:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22I3F1e017825; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:03:15 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22I3EPu005092 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:03:14 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Mar 2006 18:03:14 -0000 Received: from 84-73-81-18.dclient.hispeed.ch (EHLO vaio.gigerstyle.ch) [84.73.81.18] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 02 Mar 2006 19:03:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1226656 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:03:12 +0100 From: Marc Giger To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question Message-ID: <20060302190312.1d220b56@vaio.gigerstyle.ch> In-Reply-To: References: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> <4406CBAE.3010408@computer.org> <0285EF4A-EAFB-4A64-AF55-9128ABA8C7E5@allmail.net> <4406F321.90902@computer.org> <0A8057BB-E195-4773-8C90-C411A6B35C18@allmail.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 3a233973-8674-4995-a0d6-e28afb68e2ad X-Archives-Hash: 1a926dbafe1aabcfe9ee0cf8724fab61 Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:42:35 -0500 "Nick Smith" wrote: > On 3/2/06, Ben de Luca wrote: > > > > > > I don't know if the bootloader can boot off ext3 partitions; I've > > > never > > > tried. You'll have to dig into the docs to find out. > > > > ext3 is ext2 with a journal. so if it can see ext2 it can see ext3 > > -- Wow, 10 mails in one day! Is this a new record for this list?:-) I just want to say that it is relatively easy to boot from a software raid1. Since the discs are bitwise mirrored, you can mount a single partition directly. This is also the trick behind booting from a raid0 array. It doesn't boot from raid but reads just a single partition from the raid. I should mention that you shouldn't mount a part from the array read-write... My setup is as following: /dev/md0 on / type xfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/md5 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/md1 on /usr type xfs (rw) /dev/md2 on /var type xfs (rw) /dev/md3 on /home type xfs (rw) /dev/md10 on /usr/portage type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md11 on /space/01 type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md12 on /space/02 type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md13 on /space/03 type xfs (rw,noatime) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) (swap is mirrored too) My boot partition is ext2 (to make aboot happy) and about ~40MB in size. ext3 doesn't make sense, because the journal also needs space but would work too... If one disk fails, I have no downtime and loose no data. I hope this helps a little bit with your decisions. greets Marc -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list