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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux raid wiki - setting up a system - advice wanted :-)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:13:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5651061-1404-30be-2777-9ae02a640f42@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57E8C550.8000509@youngman.org.uk>

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.

> (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. )

Phil


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-26 14:13 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 [this message]
2016-09-26 15:48       ` Wols Lists
2016-09-26  9:30 ` keld

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