Amir Mistric wrote:
We are contemplating to start using RHEL v4 in our enterprise.
Most of our servers have a hardware RAID.
The server we are using for a RHEL 4 trial install has 4x36GB SCSI
drives configured using RAID 5.
Of course, we also want to use LVM.
Can someone please suggest what would be the best “layout”/”recipe”
considering the configuration I described?
Using “automatically” partitioning during install RHEL suggests:
/boot and swap outside LVM and the rest of space in LVM mounted under /
file system.
Is this sufficient layout for maximum flexibility? Should I create other
logical volumes and file systems?
Seems like a good enough policy. An alternative is to have a larger
root, so that you can do LVM diagnostics without using a boot CD. But
using a standard vendor configuration means that you're going to surprise
fewer admins that come along.
Any tips are appreciated
Here's a tip... simulate a failure and make sure that you can detect it.
If you've got pluggable disks, then quiesce the system and unplug one.
Never unplug an active disk, of course.
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