Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I am mirroring two drives during install, what's the best practice here for > the swap partition? Maybe two separate lv's from independent vg's *not* > mirrored for swap and the let the OS manage it? Boot and the / vg will be > mirrored. More of a comment than a answer bu

RE: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>That's old information, kernel swapper can handle all types of dev mapper >setups these days (well all types on fixed media). Ross and Les, Thank you! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
RE: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM >Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is >/boot. > >-Ross Oh, I thought it wasn’t good to run swap inside software raid? If I was wrong, I assume this is beneficial since if one of the

Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am mirroring two drives during install, what's the best practice here for the swap partition? Maybe two separate lv's from independent vg's *not* mirrored for swap and the let the OS manage it? Boot and the / vg will be mirrored. If you would like to keep running th

RE: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is >/boot. > >-Ross Oh, I thought it wasn’t good to run swap inside software raid? If I was wrong, I assume this is beneficial since if one of the HD’s tanks while its running, it will survive the failure and not need to

Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is /boot. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'centos@centos.org' Sent: Mon Feb 04 17:29:45 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Ra

[CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am mirroring two drives during install, what's the best practice here for the swap partition? Maybe two separate lv's from independent vg's *not* mirrored for swap and the let the OS manage it? Boot and the / vg will be mirrored. Thanks! jlc ___ Cen