From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux raid wiki - setting up a system - advice wanted :-)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:48:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57E94339.4060504@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5651061-1404-30be-2777-9ae02a640f42@turmel.org>
On 26/09/16 15:13, Phil Turmel wrote:
> On 09/26/2016 02:50 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> Bare metal -> raid [-> lvm] -> /
>>
>> Is there any room on the disk to install grub?
>
> No.
Ten out of ten. Thanks.
(Hint to examinees - please answer the question on the paper, not the
question you want to answer :-)
>
>> (Note that - and I know you shouldn't believe everything you read on the
>> internet - apparently Neil Brown prefers passing the entire
>> unpartitioned disk to raid ...)
>
> I'm with Neil for my large arrays. I partition a pair of SSDs for UEFI
> boot and a raid mirror holding an LVM volume group for the OS. All
> other drives are unpartitioned, given entirely to a raid6 w/ a small
> chunk size (16k lately). A separate LVM volume group on top of that.
>
> ( I no longer use any bootloader, either, as UEFI will boot a kernel
> directly that's been built with EFI_STUB and a nested initramfs. )
>
That's good to know. I don't have any experience with UEFI as yet, so I
can document that as a hint to others.
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-25 21:16 Linux raid wiki - setting up a system - advice wanted :-) Wols Lists
2016-09-26 0:59 ` Francisco Parada
2016-09-26 8:17 ` keld
2016-09-26 2:16 ` Andreas Klauer
2016-09-26 3:40 ` Adam Goryachev
2016-09-26 6:50 ` Wols Lists
2016-09-26 14:13 ` Phil Turmel
2016-09-26 15:48 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2016-09-26 9:30 ` keld
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