From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kr4Pq-0004vq-RS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:31:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C367E022B; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6A8E022B for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so845255fga.14 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:31:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=13rYYqT+ULftfZnVX5mDUv4ao5kYIXpFEHcSLua4/e8=; b=CRPzZP6H2yMJnq76rCqtycuKBPaEZg5tz5Ei53x3xgGBtOjzEuUXcAoVoOF7Li38/H HgoSLdBHMYcrOct3VgiJweTV9wbOBYPJ5LlRPasGjpDJDFmmrB2SLpn1B3c8sZhiY/vM MdT7+1M/6xtTt22HJ2jdo6C7erJ9qpS97QYMA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QwSWhF1ZPJhUCSmHF1eQmFPwIYZ2XNwtm8WzXNGWYuxg2wHv3hduGF3xSvY6hu3Ir8 HfPLDX/MspyQaWx1no2IxPJMDgwxyvJtz1PRubf8LXri4lliURozhxKJHDdjUiRoO16R G1hObFAzCyIQgzz49n4v2toWq2lWmhDXsny1w= Received: by 10.181.56.16 with SMTP id i16mr1851038bkk.19.1224307911595; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (a83-245-202-145.elisa-laajakaista.fi [83.245.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm7968029fkx.1.2008.10.17.22.31.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48F974C6.6090002@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:31:50 +0300 From: jormaa User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080928) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> <48F5EC89.9050704@tibyke.hu> <200810151522.46789.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <48F86BB4.3060206@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <48F86BB4.3060206@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fef0fdd5-6067-4326-b8cf-c6590ac16a3a X-Archives-Hash: 7c7b22c9418cc2d77b7d55db79ab8fd2 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > > > OK - nearly everyone here (and at work, too) told me to forget the > onboard fake raid controller. So this is what I will do :-) > The RAID-Howto as well as the LVM howto are however woefully out of > date. I will try to work with the linux-raid website's info. > > Basically I plan to do: > - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 > - 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), > but it seems safer to let root be an own partition. Or are there any > different opinions here? I'm very interested in hearing experiences... > - 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). > > Any comments? Obviously insane? :-) Don't think so. > - Wolfgang > > > Likewhoa has a nice writedown of raid and LVM2 on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-702681-highlight-likewhoa+recipe.html?sid=e9df56d90808ed712323ca693936a004. Using that it should be easy enough to adjust to your needs. Greets jormaa