On 26/09/16 15:13, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 09/26/2016 02:50 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > >> Bare metal -> raid [-> lvm] -> / >> >> Is there any room on the disk to install grub? > > No. Ten out of ten. Thanks. (Hint to examinees - please answer the question on the paper, not the question you want to answer :-) > >> (Note that - and I know you shouldn't believe everything you read on the >> internet - apparently Neil Brown prefers passing the entire >> unpartitioned disk to raid ...) > > I'm with Neil for my large arrays. I partition a pair of SSDs for UEFI > boot and a raid mirror holding an LVM volume group for the OS. All > other drives are unpartitioned, given entirely to a raid6 w/ a small > chunk size (16k lately). A separate LVM volume group on top of that. > > ( I no longer use any bootloader, either, as UEFI will boot a kernel > directly that's been built with EFI_STUB and a nested initramfs. ) > That's good to know. I don't have any experience with UEFI as yet, so I can document that as a hint to others. Cheers, Wol -- 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
