From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: metadata and / and grub-static
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:31:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBA105B.2040609@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q2v5bdc1c8b1004050852j98b4b91fne8dea1399892862f@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/04/2010 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
> John,
> Thanks for the summary. It's succinct and covered the info I needed
> this weekend.
In which case, apologies for not answering until Monday afternoon :-)
> One question comes to mind. I'm about to build a Gentoo machine
> that will run a number of copies of Windows in VirtualBox VMs. The
> system will be nice, reliable RAID1 for all of Linux, and then 'fast'
> RAID0 on different drives for the VM data. As there will be nothing
> involved with booting Linux on this RAID - just the VM data. I assume
> that there's no problem assembling RAID0 after the boot process has
> essentially completed, and that this RAID could use any form of
> metadata?
Yep. You could do this with /home /usr /var too. I expect Gentoo's init
scripts will run mdadm for you before mounting the other filesystems;
the other distros generally do.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-04 19:34 metadata and / and grub-static Mark Knecht
2010-04-05 2:02 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-05 2:26 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-04-05 14:15 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-05 14:55 ` John Robinson
2010-04-05 15:52 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-05 16:31 ` John Robinson [this message]
2010-04-05 16:44 ` Mark Knecht
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