Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753975AbXFPGqw (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:46:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752073AbXFPGqn (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:46:43 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:16835 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752063AbXFPGqn (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:46:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:46:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" cc: Christian Schmidt , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB In-Reply-To: <46737747.1050608@ums.usu.ru> Message-ID: References: <46727E7C.8060102@digadd.de> <46729C14.5000809@digadd.de> <46737747.1050608@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1693 Lines: 35 On Jun 16 2007 11:38, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: > >> > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, >> > as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as >> > yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway >> > I'll just add the second partition for now, and change the system setup >> > with the next drive migration. Maybe linux even supports root-on-lvm >> > natively until then ;) >> >> Uh, it does. By means of initrd/ramfs image. Blame your distro if it still >> can't do root-on-LVM, there is at least one who can. > > AFAIK, root-on-LVM on the whole disk (BTW, I use such setup myself) > requires LILO, doesn't it? Could you please list a few distributions > with an easy method to install LILO (and, of course, root and /boot on > LVM on whole disk) from their default installation media? So far, I only > know that Debian can do it if you run debootstrap by hand, although they > say that such setup is a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/401393). I am not sure (would have to check again), but I believe both opensuse and fedora (the latter of which uses LVM for all partitions by default) have that working, while still using GRUB. But, what's much more amazing, is that GRUB seems to work with raid0 (both BIOS-based and MD)... perhaps it's just luck that the needed files are contiguous? Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/