-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Hi Lenz, ... That all looks very sensible. I don't see a big problem with repartitioning non-LVM disks myself (shrink, lower partition boundary, create/resize filesystem above new boundary), but with LVM it would be a tad easier and somewhat safer.
Indeed.
After too many disasters I always use raid1 though for / and /home, perhaps others, but not for /data, because the play area and collection of ISOs doesn't need it. Although there are voices to the contrary, I've had good experience with Linux soft raid.
Me too, I have everything in (software) RAID1. mdadm has been really solid for me so far.
How stable is, in your opinion, the soft raid1 (or raid5) combined with LVM when something fails somewhere?
Rock-solid for me. There are just a couple of annoying bugs in YaST2's
partitioner we should get rid of before pushing those options to a wider
public (e.g. as the default setup/proposal).
I don't recall 100%, but from what I remember: when you want to combine
RAID1 and LVM, in YaST2, you first have to create the RAID1 (obviously).
Then, don't assign it (/dev/md0) anywhere ! It is assigned by default
AFAICR, so you have to explicitly remove the assignments. Then go to LVM
and there are a few glitches with selecting RAID1 as a PV for LVM too..
I think... sorry, can't explain it in detail, I just had to jump through
a few hoops and don't remember it.
There's also a *very* annoying bug with YaST2, when you resize
partitions, YaST2 will never allow you to do so on a mounted filesystem,
although it works perfectly well on the CLI - at least with LVM +
reiserfs or XFS (lvresize && resize_reiserfs).
cheers
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