I've been thinking about the discussion we had earlier and think a couple of pages added to BLFS would be a good start (yes, I know this is lfs-dev). The outline of the pages is below and I'm looking for feedback.
There is a nice tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm that I intend to reference. What we present would be a summary and some other issues, but I don't think LFS/BLFS is the appropriate place for in-depth tutorials (other than building a Linux system). :) Both pages would go in BLFS Chapter 3 (After LFS Configuration Issues), but could go in Chapter 5 (File Systems). After we've got a feel that the new info in BLFS will work, we then add forward references to LFS. I've added a 2nd disk to my system for testing. There is still a lot of study needed on my part to understand everything, but it's starting to make some sense. -- Bruce -------------- About Filesystems, LVM, and RAID Filesystems Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) Mention FAT/NTFS, BTRFS, ISO9660, and UDF LVM fdisk type 8e pvcreate vgcreate lvcreate mkfs mount / fstab RAID Type 0, 1, 5, others fdisk type fd Using mdadm (needs to be added to the book) mdadm --create LVM and RAID Mention HW RAID ------------- GRUB and initramfs Using dracut to create an initramfs (add dracut to the book) Grub2 Configuration for advanced partition layouts Other considerations -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
