Software RAID + XFS question

[Andrew Mathews]

Federico Voges wrote:
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> Hi,
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> How is lilo configured?? Can you post/send me your lilo.conf??

Sure. I'll be back at that machine in the morning. I'll send it to you then

> My /etc/raidtab looks pretty much like yours, except for the device IDs
> (I'm using IDE drives).
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> Regarding the partitioning, I see the point in using multiple
> partitions when you have multiple disks. But in this particular case, I
> want to keep it simple. Do you see any particular advantage in using
> multiple partitions??

Nah. The biggest problem I've run into so far has been with SuSE. It 
would only allow the creation of 4 md devices during install. (md0,1,2 & 
3) When I created more than that it would barf, so if /usr was on md5 it 
wouldn't boot. I got around this by booting from diskette, manually 
editing /etc/raidtab for the additional md devices then they would mount 
fine. So in this case less is more. Keep it simple like you have it.
(this problem didn't exist with *cough* Caldera 3.1.1 or Red Hat using 
the SGI boot images).

> I'm using this machine as a test bed for a webhosting server (an Intel
> SR1200 - SCB2 ATA (Promise FastTrack100, dual PIII, etc). I'll be using
> quotas to keep users from filling my / partition, etc, etc.
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