From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Goswin von Brederlow Subject: Re: What will happen with spares in this scenario? Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:26:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87r5x2xs7i.fsf@frosties.localdomain> References: <87zlbruinb.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: (John McNulty's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:42:35 +0100") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John McNulty Cc: Goswin von Brederlow , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids John McNulty writes: > On 29 Jun 2009, at 17:08, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > So drop md1, make c0d0p1 as big as the others and then > partition > md0 eigther directly or via lvm. > > > > > You wouldn't happen to know if it's possible to create a partitionabl= e array > like this in Kickstart would you? =A0 I've had a sniff around Redhat'= s docs and > a documented way of doing this isn't jumping out at me. =A0 =A0If I h= ad to guess > then it might look something like this? Totally Debian here. > part =A0pv.1 =A0--size 1 --ondisk cciss/c0d0 --grow --asprimary > > part =A0pv.2 =A0--size 1 --ondisk cciss/c1d0 --grow --asprimary > > raid =A0pv.3 =A0--level=3DRAID1 --device=3Dmd_d0 pv.1 pv.2 > > > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 300 --ondisk md_d0 > > part pv.4 --fstype "physical volume (LVM) --size 1 --ondisk md_d0 --g= row > > volgroup system --pesize=3D32768 pv.4 > logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=3Droot --vgname=3Dsystem --size=3D51200 > logvol swap --fstype swap --name=3Dswap --vgname=3Dsystem --size=3D81= 92 Hmm, do I understand this right that you want 2 partitions. One for /boot and one for everything else on lvm? Just a crazy idea. But why not put /boot on lvm too and use grub2 or lilo as bootloader? Or does Kickstart not allow that? > This might be a bit ambitious, and I can't see an option to "raid" th= at would > tell it to create a partitionable raid device, i.e. run --auto=3Dmdp = behind the > scenes. =A0 Unless it takes a hint from the device name and does that= without > asking? > > > > The systems I'm working on are to be kickstarted from a Spacewalk ser= ver. > > > > Rgds, > > > > John MfG Goswin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html