RE: multiple partitions

2000-04-01 Thread Michael Robinton
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Michael wrote: > > > hmmm. the remirroring code is not very smart... as I recall it > > does the remirroring in order .. i.e. md0, md1, etc... This would > > imply that if you have a power fail or other crash that causes bo

RE: multiple partitions

2000-04-01 Thread danci
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Michael wrote: > hmmm. the remirroring code is not very smart... as I recall it > does the remirroring in order .. i.e. md0, md1, etc... This would > imply that if you have a power fail or other crash that causes both > md's to be faulty, the system will not be able to

RE: multiple partitions

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Bilow
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Michael wrote: > > /dev/md0/dev/hda1 + /dev/hdc129.7 GBRAID-1 > > /dev/md1/dev/hda2 + /dev/hdc2 0.3 GBRAID-1 > > > > We use /dev/md0 for the root fs and /dev/md1 for swap. Why? > > Because it takes about 90 minutes to remirror /dev/md0 and only > >

RE: multiple partitions

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Bilow
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Michael wrote: > > /dev/md0/dev/hda1 + /dev/hdc129.7 GBRAID-1 > > /dev/md1/dev/hda2 + /dev/hdc2 0.3 GBRAID-1 > > > > We use /dev/md0 for the root fs and /dev/md1 for swap. Why? > > Because it takes about 90 minutes to remirror /dev/md0 and only > >

RE: multiple partitions

2000-03-31 Thread Michael
> /dev/md0/dev/hda1 + /dev/hdc129.7 GBRAID-1 > /dev/md1/dev/hda2 + /dev/hdc2 0.3 GBRAID-1 > > We use /dev/md0 for the root fs and /dev/md1 for swap. Why? > Because it takes about 90 minutes to remirror /dev/md0 and only > about 2 minutes to remirror /dev/md1. Since we c

RE: multiple partitions

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Bilow
I think there is rarely a valid reason to split a single disk system into multiple small partitions. In fact, the Multi-Disk HOWTO agrees: In fact, for single physical drives this scheme offers very little gains at all, other than making file growth monitoring easier (usi

RE: multiple partitions

2000-03-31 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Check out the "multi-disk-HOWTO" (the name might be slightly different) by Stein Gjoen. You get get it from http://www.linuxdoc.org/. It has a very good explanation of how and why things are the way they are. One of the best HOWTOs around. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Gl