From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Help creating filesystem (xfs) and partitioning Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:46:07 -0400 Message-ID: <51F59F2F.2080709@tmr.com> References: <51F19E0F.5000400@tmr.com> <51F1B478.4050901@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Roberto Spadim Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Roberto Spadim wrote: > ok =] in other words no problem about performace loss, just use one > xfs per disk, right? > the second doubt... i was thinking about /boot /home and /, in the > same partition, should i consider other design? a /boot with ext2 or > ext3 and a / with xfs? > > i'm considering only one partition with swap and one partition with > raid1+xfs, what you think? > in a crash (power failure) i will have better rescure with only one > partition? or many partitions? > I would create a /boot partition, root partition, and swap partition on each drive and make rais1 to create three devices, with two filesystem, /boot and root. My thought is that you rarely change /boot, and that MUST work to get the system up, so put it by itself. Also, I'm pretty sure you want ext on the boot filesystem, if for no other reason than the code in grub being better tested booting from that than any other. I will let someone who is more expert in xfs than I discuss any questions you have, boot issues may be urban myth, but I see no benefit to using anything else. Note that I have no solid evidence the other than ext for /boot causes problems, but years of trouble free with ext3. -- Bill Davidsen "'Nothing to hide' does not imply 'nothing to fear'" - me "AT&T could not seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal." -judge Vaughn R. Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, EFF vs. AT&T