Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Digimer
On 11/19/2010 07:18 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Digimer wrote: > >> I mirror /boot and because if either is lost, the system dies. :) >> Imagine if something was in swap, then swap vanished, and then the >> system tried to retrieve what was in swap... Not so good. :P >

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Digimer wrote: > I mirror /boot and because if either is lost, the system dies. :) > Imagine if something was in swap, then swap vanished, and then the > system tried to retrieve what was in swap... Not so good. :P You could use LVM to create LV for swap and root

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Digimer ha scritto: > On 11/19/2010 04:32 AM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>> 1. http://wiki.alteeve.com/files/an-cluster/ks/generic_server_rhel6.ks >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> >> Does that kickstart effectly produces a partitioning that is >> exactly the same on both disks? Because that is the p

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Digimer
On 11/19/2010 04:32 AM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> 1. http://wiki.alteeve.com/files/an-cluster/ks/generic_server_rhel6.ks > > Thank you for your reply. > > Does that kickstart effectly produces a partitioning that is > exactly the same on both disks? Because that is the problem > I'm facing: the par

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Could you please tell me how to tell grub and initrd to mount read-only > half of a raid1 set, please? If you've got sda1 and sdb1 making up md0, then just mount sda1/sdb1 ro. jh ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Roberto Nunnari ha scritto: > John Hodrien ha scritto: >> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> >>> Yes, but rsync and cron are there to help. >> But you're just papering over cracks. > > Yes, in sight of what you say after, I agree. > > >>> In any case, I just realized it's not only in

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
John Hodrien ha scritto: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > >> Yes, but rsync and cron are there to help. > > But you're just papering over cracks. Yes, in sight of what you say after, I agree. > >> In any case, I just realized it's not only initramdisk that >> has to to understa

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Yes, but rsync and cron are there to help. But you're just papering over cracks. > In any case, I just realized it's not only initramdisk that > has to to understand and use software raid, but even > before that there's grub (or lilo.. anybody out th

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
John Hodrien ha scritto: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > >> hehe.. that's right, but if you look at my partitioning, >> there's a /boot2 partition on the second drive where I >> keep a copy of /boot.. even if master boot record is >> gone with /boot, with a grub cd of floppy I can

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > hehe.. that's right, but if you look at my partitioning, > there's a /boot2 partition on the second drive where I > keep a copy of /boot.. even if master boot record is > gone with /boot, with a grub cd of floppy I can always > boot my system. But the

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Rudi Ahlers ha scritto: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Roberto Nunnari > wrote: >> Digimer ha scritto: >>> On 11/18/2010 01:11 PM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hello. A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks with

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Digimer ha scritto: >> On 11/18/2010 01:11 PM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers >>> using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks >>> with two software raid1 partitions as fo

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Digimer ha scritto: > On 11/18/2010 01:11 PM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >> Hello. >> >> A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers >> using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks >> with two software raid1 partitions as follows: >> >> # cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [raid1] >> md1

Re: [CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-18 Thread Digimer
On 11/18/2010 01:11 PM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hello. > > A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers > using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks > with two software raid1 partitions as follows: > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0]

[CentOS] kickstart raid disk partitioning

2010-11-18 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hello. A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks with two software raid1 partitions as follows: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0] 933448704 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] s