Hi Gordon, --- On Mon, 10/15/12, Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote: > If it's just for /boot, I wouldn't expect much of a > difference. It > sounded like you wanted to install the OS on a flash drive.
Ok, i'm sorry, that's not what i meant. > Still, booting from RAID 1 isn't generally a problem. > Start the first > partition (/boot) at 1 megabyte for best alignment and > install grub on > both drives. I won't suggest that booting from flash > is wrong, but > there really aren't any advantages. In my (i agree a bit outdated) knowlegde of the subject i thought booting frmo a sw-raid'ed drive was a bit tricky, so that why i came up with the flash idea because it's unlikely to fail anytime soon if i only have to update the kernel every few months or so. @All: Thanks for all the suggestions and links on the virtualisation subject. Since i really want to stick with Linux i guess the Linux Containers seems to be the best tool for the job. I've read some more about them and it indeed seems to provide the level of separation and features i need, the lower overhead is a big plus on relatively low power devices like the 6501. I'll play a bit with it on hardware i already have to see what's what. My main concern is that i want to assign physical interfaces or vlan interfaces to a container and that seems to be possible. As far as i understood i can even share /usr between the containers and that sure is a big advantage with a distro like Gentoo :-) Best regards, Wesley _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
