From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: metadata and / and grub-static Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:44:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2D.29.28131.56A49BB4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> <4BB9F9E4.2060802@anonymous.org.uk> <4BBA105B.2040609@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BBA105B.2040609@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Robinson wrote: > On 05/04/2010 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > [...] >> >> John, >> =C2=A0 Thanks for the summary. It's succinct and covered the info I = needed >> this weekend. > > In which case, apologies for not answering until Monday afternoon :-) > A little struggle on my side is good for the brain. forces me to read and learn a I try to do. Yeah, frustrating once in awhile, but a good thing none the less. >> =C2=A0 One question comes to mind. I'm about to build a Gentoo machi= ne >> that will run a number of copies of Windows in VirtualBox VMs. The >> system will be nice, reliable RAID1 for all of Linux, and then 'fast= ' >> RAID0 on different drives for the VM data. As there will be nothing >> involved with booting Linux on this RAID - just the VM data. I assum= e >> that there's no problem assembling RAID0 after the boot process has >> essentially completed, and that this RAID could use any form of >> metadata? > > Yep. You could do this with /home /usr /var too. I expect Gentoo's in= it > scripts will run mdadm for you before mounting the other filesystems;= the > other distros generally do. Yes, I can turn them on if I choose with rc-update add. I haven't done that yet as I need to do some reading on that also. Currently I'm focused on understanding benchmarking a bit better - iozone, bonnie++ - to see what I currently have with my new RAID1. Cheers, Mark > > Cheers, > > John. > -- 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