From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4GA9G018519 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 06:09:16 -0400 Received: from shoenix.net (shoenix.xs4all.nl [213.84.65.61]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4GA9E2W021751 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 06:09:15 -0400 Received: (from amavis@localhost) by shoenix.net (/8.12.2) id i4GA9Fep016647 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sun, 16 May 2004 12:09:15 +0200 Received: from osp.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shoenix.net (/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i4GA9EhW016621 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 12:09:14 +0200 Message-ID: <40A73771.2030604@osp.nl> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 11:42:09 +0200 From: Martijn Schoemaker MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] /boot on lvm? References: <40A72846.5050801@mlug.missouri.edu> <20040516084236.GB8872@percy.comedia.it> In-Reply-To: <20040516084236.GB8872@percy.comedia.it> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Hehehe the eternal discussion :) Well, I just don't have the guts to put /boot in LVM so I just put it on a 'md' device. Do boot managers like Lilo and Grub cope with LVM ? I know Lilo does cope with md since it will put the boot block on both physical drives when installing. And how does it work when the bios needs to reference the boot image which is in an LVM volume ? Does this work at all ? I just never tried, but I am curious :) And swap in LVM seems fine to me too. You should only keep performance in mind. On the other hand, with the fast disks nowadays I don't think you'll have any problems with normal usage. I also put my root in LVM, and this works great. Only thing is that you might have some problems when migrating to newer LVM versions, but it is do-able. Having your root in a resizable volume has many advantages I think. Just my few cents, Martijn Luca Berra wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 01:37:26AM -0700, Michael wrote: > >> Is it okay to put everything, including /boot and other critical Linux >> files on an LVM drive? How about swap space? > > i don't have any problem with this kind of setup, but you will find many > people here that will say just the opposite. > > L. > -- There's someone in my head, but it's not me. --- Pink Floyd