Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:17:24PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Goswin wrote me the same. Good to know. I might have made that mistake as I was under the impression that RAID on the ASUS A8V Deluxe was good. In general (there are a few exceptions for high end server boards): -Onboard raid is

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-06-21 @ 10:34:46 (week 25) Lennart Sorensen wrote: -A raid card that costs less than $200 probably isn't hardware raid and is the same as the onboard raid just on a pci card. I suspect there may be a few hardware raid cards just below $200, but probably not many. There are many

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:34 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:17:24PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Goswin wrote me the same. Good to know. I might have made that mistake as I was under the impression that RAID on the ASUS A8V Deluxe was good. In general (there are a

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-20 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-06-19 @ 20:06:49 (week 24) Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Apart from those hints I have only one problem with lvm on my amd64: Reconstructing a raid5 on lvm only does 1MB/s (instead of 50 MB/s vithout lvm). Usage speed doesn't suffer though, it just takes forever to build the first time

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
J.A. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2005-06-19 @ 20:06:49 (week 24) Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Apart from those hints I have only one problem with lvm on my amd64: Reconstructing a raid5 on lvm only does 1MB/s (instead of 50 MB/s vithout lvm). Usage speed doesn't suffer though, it

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-20 Thread Jacob Larsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.A. de Vries wrote: have a bit more time to experiment. At the moment I am not using the RAID facilities of the mobo, but I might so I will try to remember your remarks on that too. If you decide to use RAID, you should probably consider the

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.A. de Vries) writes: Hi list, I was considering to use LVM on my brand new box now that is working. I have never used it before, but want to learn about it. (How's that for a reason? }:-) Before I start this little endeavor I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any caveats

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-19 Thread David Wood
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:38 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: I would appreciate that very much. I'd give me something to build on. My steps after building a new kernel package are: 1) back up /boot/grub/menu.lst 2) comment out or move aside /etc/ld.so.conf 3) run ldconfig 4) dpkg -i your new kernel

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi David and others, I have been using LVM with debian/amd64 since I first set up the box, including the root FS - a relatively long time now. It is quite stable, I can tell you that much. I myself use reiserfs, which you can, along with LVM, resize online and so forth. It's not your only

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-15 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:51:17AM -0700, Joel Johnson wrote: I'd like to get others opinions on filesystems on LVM - I've been using XFS which lets you grow the filesystem online. What are others' experiences with various filesystems. Reiser and I believe ext3 are growable and shrinkable,

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-15 Thread David Wood
I have been using LVM with debian/amd64 since I first set up the box, including the root FS - a relatively long time now. It is quite stable, I can tell you that much. I myself use reiserfs, which you can, along with LVM, resize online and so forth. It's not your only filesystem choice by any

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:51:17AM -0700, Joel Johnson wrote: I have had not issues using LVM with root on it. You'll save yourself alot of headache by putting a regular,small /boot partition at the beginning of the drive, then using the rest for LVM if you're so inclined. I'd like to get