From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:20:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_mx1g3NLN2QbE1ryBu9uVyBpX4pErYX5ZGKT2oiMwrFtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12198925.7iA40cA1Uc@wstn>
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Oh, I wouldn't install partitions on top of an md raid device. I
probably would use it as an lvm physical volume though.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-21 18:20 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
2015-03-21 18:20 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2015-03-21 21:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-22 2:39 ` Peter Humphrey
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