On Monday 23 Sep 2002 10:49 am, William Blunn wrote: > > A few of the regulars on this list seem to have a setup like this > > working. > > > > I have 2 disks mirrored with linux software raid-1. on top of this I have > > created 3 lv's: root, var, and swap. So far I have not been able to > > figure out the boot=,root= parameters that'll coax lilo into booting > > this. > > > > A few of the regulars on this list seem to have something like this > > working. Would someone post a working lilo configuration for a raid1+lvm > > noninitrd setup? > > > > references to setups like this working: > > http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-September/012245.html > > http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/lvm-devel/2001-October/000686.html > > People often ask me questions to which my answer begins "One or more of > the premises on which your question is based is false, therefore your > question does not make any sense. Peeling back a layer and looking at > what you are really trying to achieve, you might find that your best > solution would be this: ... ". > > Don't put your root filesystem in an LVM. > > The small benefit of having it resizable is far outweighed by the setup > cost and the maintenance difficulties you will get when things go wrong. > > Anything which is big and which might cause you to want to have a bigger > root filesystem shouldn't be in there, and should be in one of your > other filesystems instead. > > If you don't have a suitable filesystem for the new big thing, you can > just create one --- you have an LVM! Those are all good reason for always having one root filesystem that is not in LVM. If you have more than one root filesystem then I dont see a problem with putting it in LVM. Im not sure if this applies to the orginal poster, but I do think his question is still valid. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
