On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/21/2013 12:03 PM, Drew wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> >> The other question I'd ask is why do you have 10 raid1 arrays on those >> two disks? > > No joke. That setup is ridiculous. RAID exists to guard against a > drive failure, not as a substitute for volume management. > >> Given you have an initramfs, at most you should have separate >> partitions (raid'd) for /boot & root. Everything else should be broken >> down using LVM. Way more flexible to move things around in future as >> required. > > LVM isn't even required. Using partitions (atop MD) or a single large > filesystem (XFS) with quotas works just as well. Agreed. For simple setups, a single boot & root is just fine. I'd assumed the OP's reasons for using multiple partitions was valid, so keeping those partitions over top a single raid array meant LVM was the best choice. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
