Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

[Wolfgang Liebich <Wolfgang.Liebich@siemens.com>]

Hi,

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> 
> the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me.

I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want to use
udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev that for me?

> 
> 
> > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the
> > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the
> > root partition get's to small),
> 
> yeah, but if you have 20+ gb root is always big enough ;) AFAIK lvm kills 
> barriers. You use raid for better data security. So using lvm is a bit.. 
> contra productive.

Sorry, I'm neither a LVM nor a RAID export - could you please
elaborate on that?
I like LVM because of the convenience it adds.

> 
> 
> > - Build a RAID1 partition for the rest of the system (will be a LVM2
> > container)
> > - Build a last RAID0 partition for scratch data (/tmp, /var/tmp,
> > /usr/portage, scratch data).
> 
> I have /tmp and /var/tmp on tmpfs - /tmp is so small it is not worth wasting a 
> partition for it.

/tmp --- maybe now (4GB ram). /var/tmp - not sure (OpenOffice compile
comes to mind here :-)
Ciao,
Wolfgang