Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:20:59PM -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: After discovering that the amd64 Debian Installer netinst images have been broken recently, I retreated to sarge. At first glance, I was having pretty good luck, but I ran into a snag during boot loader installation.

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:37:37PM +0100, Gilles wrote: Well, maybe not a good idea for the swap partition(s)... swap not on raid is a very bad idea. I don't like my systems panicing due to lost access to memory. I run swap as an LV slice on top of raid1. Works great and a disk failure does

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:20:59PM -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: After discovering that the amd64 Debian Installer netinst images have been broken recently, I retreated to sarge. At first glance, I was having pretty good luck, but I ran

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-07 Thread A J Stiles
On Saturday 05 November 2005 00:22, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Gilles wrote: During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After partitioning, I tried to install LILO in the MBR on /dev/md0, but

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-07 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:04 AM, A J Stiles wrote: On Saturday 05 November 2005 00:22, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Gilles wrote: During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After partitioning, I

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:04:08AM +, A J Stiles wrote: If you are using software RAID then you must have a /boot partition which is a non-RAID, ext3 or ext2 partition; and a separate swap partition on each drive Note that this isn't true for RAID1 (mirroring); LILO can load the

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-06 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
In comparing the unofficial sarge to the sid_d-i CD, I find that I'm able to partition as I hope/expect with sid: disk1 1 small physical volume for RAID for /boot 1 large physical volume for RAID for rest of system disk2 1 small physical volume for RAID for /boot 1 large physical

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
To continue this thread a bit, I'm curious whether the current state of boot loaders for Debian under amd64 is such that it is theoretically possible to configure LVM on software RAID on a multi- disk system without needing an isolated un-RAIDed /boot partition on one of the disks. I have

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Gilles
To continue this thread a bit, I'm curious whether the current state of boot loaders for Debian under amd64 is such that it is theoretically possible to configure LVM on software RAID on a multi- disk system without needing an isolated un-RAIDed /boot partition on one of the disks.

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Gilles
It is certainly possible to have everything on RAID. Well, maybe not a good idea for the swap partition(s)... Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Sylvain Sauvage
Samedi 5 novembre 2005, 19:37:37 CET, Gilles a écrit : It is certainly possible to have everything on RAID. Well, maybe not a good idea for the swap partition(s)... Why not? Speed issues? If the hard disk with your swap crashes, wouldn't a RAIDed swap avoid the system to crash? --

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Nov 5, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Gilles wrote: I have a two-disk system. I'd like to create two RAID1s for this system. One of the RAID1s would exist across a /boot partition with the bootable flag set on each disk. [snip] Is there any way to achieve what I want to do (preferably from the

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-05 Thread Gilles
Hi. Well, maybe not a good idea for the swap partition(s)... Why not? Speed issues? If the hard disk with your swap crashes, wouldn't a RAIDed swap avoid the system to crash? Yes, why not? ;-) It seemed like a good idea after all, and I've just done it: # swapon -s Filename

Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-04 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
After discovering that the amd64 Debian Installer netinst images have been broken recently, I retreated to sarge. At first glance, I was having pretty good luck, but I ran into a snag during boot loader installation. During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After

Re: Software RAID, LVM, and LILO on amd64 sarge

2005-11-04 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Gilles wrote: During partitioning, I set up both software RAID1 and LVM. After partitioning, I tried to install LILO in the MBR on /dev/md0, but it didn't work. I tried advanced mode and tried