From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Turmel Subject: Re: Linux raid wiki - setting up a system - advice wanted :-) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:13:35 -0400 Message-ID: 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: <57E8C550.8000509@youngman.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Wols Lists , Andreas Klauer Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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