There are about a million valid DR strategies, but it seems to me that
/boot, in particular, is overrated. If I have the data, I'm good. LVM is
extremely valuable, scratch that, it is *invaluable* for dealing with large
dynamic storage requirements.
On Apr 2, 2011 8:22 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 18:31 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
>
>> >> Thomson:
>> >> "Note: It is not recommended to put the following directories in an
LVM2
>> >> partition: /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root. This way,
>>
>> You forgot: /boot/ which should not live on a raided or LVM
>> device, in the interest of reducing potential points of
>> failure
>
> I didn't forget, I wasn't saying that, I was quoting from the
> document[1] I provided a link to below the quote. Who's to say /boot is
> even on the same system. You might be pulling a kernel image from else
> where, and then booting the system. :)
>
> Thus you may have systems with no /boot partition as they do not need it
> to run, just boot. If they boot via other means, that machine won't have
> a /boot partition or anything :)
>
> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml#doc_chap2
>
> --
> William L. Thomson Jr.
> Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
> http://www.obsidian-studios.com
>
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