Software RAID + XFS question

Andrew Mathews andrew_mathews
Mon May 17 11:33:28 PDT 2004


Federico Voges wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> How is lilo configured?? Can you post/send me your lilo.conf??
> 
> My /etc/raidtab looks pretty much like yours, except for the device IDs
> (I'm using IDE drives).
> 
> 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??
> 
> 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.
> 
<snip>
[root at wks1 SGI]# more /etc/lilo.conf
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2enterprise
         label=linux
         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2enterprise.img
         read-only
         root=/dev/sda2

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2smp
         label=linux-smp
         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2smp.img
         read-only
         root=/dev/sda2

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2
         label=linux-up
         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2.img
         read-only
         root=/dev/sda2

Take note that I'm not booting from an md device on this one, but it's a 
mere substitution of mdX for sdX.

HTH,

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