From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RTzWL-0002yF-2w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:25:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B6F921C08D; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E2821C049 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com ([209.85.214.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTzVL-003DwK-Tg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:24:04 +0700 Received: by bkaq10 with SMTP id q10so5568150bka.40 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:23:57 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.204.13.70 with SMTP id b6mr35532040bka.78.1322241837355; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.16 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.16 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:23:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:23:57 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151750da4a05d16004b2926b53 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 32b31f90-bbe6-4bce-a6a2-38a2e751d023 X-Archives-Hash: 0125df552adb911bdd0cb8f7afbdac06 --00151750da4a05d16004b2926b53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > >>> highly-partitioned, like this: > >>> > > > > ----- >8 snip > > > >> > >> I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1 > >> recommendation to take care of the numbers question. > >> > > > > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. > > > > I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a > shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part > of the group... ;-) > Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-) > Seriously though, I've done enough RAID (0,1,5 & 6) recently to at > least feel comfortable setting it up. I'm much more worried about > whether I'll be able to handle it when it eventually breaks down. None > the less, with LVM on top of RAID I think I'd get past a lot of > limitations that I run into, and you may, when I picked a certain size > and 1 year down the road it turns out my needs changed. > Well, if the numbers I've chosen prove to be off the mark, I'll just tarball everything and rebuild :-P In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some LVM goodness... Rgds, --00151750da4a05d16004b2926b53 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> >>> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
> >>> highly-partitioned, like this:
> >>>
> >
> > ----- >8 snip
> >
> >>
> >> I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
> >> recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
> >>
> >
> > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
> > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
> >
> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex.
> >
>
> I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a
> shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part
> of the group... ;-)
>

Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-)

> Seriously though, I've done enough RAID (0,1,5 & 6) recently to at
> least feel comfortable setting it up. I'm much more worried about
> whether I'll be able to handle it when it eventually breaks down. None
> the less, with LVM on top of RAID I think I'd get past a lot of
> limitations that I run into, and you may, when I picked a certain size
> and 1 year down the road it turns out my needs changed.
>

Well, if the numbers I've chosen prove to be off the mark, I'll just tarball everything and rebuild :-P

In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some LVM goodness...

Rgds,

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