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 1MInxq-0004nd-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:09:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8997AE0503; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E686E0503 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so6809458and.1 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:09:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Dh7hrql4nTz93v1AgrtsWa/uzwpLT0xkveMQlFNKK2g=; b=M6rvgAWr8ZK3geNFDTClkokRZqs4hXR2FZZl1gGvIeFfxqWcG84U1ozw3PoIYEAPnG nghbZpNGy+fm/N2AUjPueO272D53bw6CdYT5z7GJA1PIRauq92qqt7cWjRJexta8GnZq 9vBxHhGn4VW1FlUbVqvSbj8o5S6k4Bw0rCMx8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Hc2S+R0KPXO1dnqSVQXTqYrqhGWUUeftdQov/fQhuSsfeX+KhB6tOs9LlW1qnhPAdM KznsOQB3bxn1u8lv00mayHQsmdhpOvzA0evkPO1q5R28dtEQL3Dw2QtjQJjju9vdXYJU qktyqugdv/WmL1MJlyNJpCA9tzedOjGfMKUiw= 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 10.231.10.136 with SMTP id p8mr2025195ibp.14.1245694192955; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:09:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090622081228.5306c157@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <200906202248.49451.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <200906210957.30381.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20090621224933.393362c3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090622081228.5306c157@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:09:52 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing? From: Maxim Wexler To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99a5a469-534e-486e-9150-f2cca71b9dad X-Archives-Hash: 62d187809c9ebc8c34ff485d7259b150 > >> Necessary? Don't know but is meant to spare the SSD too much r/w strain. > > How? By spanning an LVM across the two, you have no control over which is > written to the most. I'd put / on the SSD then mount write-heavy > directories, like /var and /home, on the SD card. I'd also set $PORTDIR > to /var/portage (/usr is a daft place to put the portage tree anyway). That's what I have, I think, sda1 is /boot approx 50M , sda2 is / approx 1G, then the rest of the SSD is spanned with the SD card, approx 11G, and committed to /usr /home /opt /var and /tmp just as in the gentoo doc LVM2. mw