From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: Linux raid wiki - setting up a system - advice wanted :-) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:48:09 +0100 Message-ID: <57E94339.4060504@youngman.org.uk> References: <57E83EA8.9060809@youngman.org.uk> <20160926021622.GA25056@metamorpher.de> <57E8C550.8000509@youngman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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