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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:14:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12198925.7iA40cA1Uc@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=aV1HPsgW49YTozyj2zbaWKCSw1rPTtDYYOVXB6v+P0A@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 21 March 2015 11:18:44 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device?
> 
> When I was using mdadm I would do it all the time.  It is the easiest
> way to do RAID with devices of different sizes.  You just set up
> multiple arrays across partitions of the same sizes and then combine
> everything with LVM.

Thanks Rich.

I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from combining /dev/sd[ab]X 
- I assume you meant the same.

Interesting that the installation doc doesn't mention it though. Or it 
didn't when I used it to build this box.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-21 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-21 13:52 [gentoo-user] Partitions Peter Humphrey
2015-03-21 15:18 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-21 18:14   ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2015-03-21 18:20     ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-21 21:01     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-22  2:39       ` Peter Humphrey

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