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Re: Raid1/LVM layout via installer



Gour <gour%atmarama.net@localhost> writes:

> I see there are options to create *both* LVM Volume Group *and* Software
> RAID, but I do not have a clue how to do *both*?

I don't know, but you can surely do it by hand.  Basically LVG will make
logical disks of some size, and raidframe will let you group them.  This
isn't as cool as you might think because [you can't | it's too hard to]
resize raidframe disks.

> Of course it was even possible to simply convert from single disk setup to
> raid-1 by adding 2nd disk to the array later.

With raidframe, the first 64 sectors are the raidframe header, so you
can't do that.


My advice is to get an extra disk, perhaps small and install onto that
just enough to work, and then set up the real disks with lvm/raidframe
by hand and unpack sets and configure booting.  You'll want netbsd-7 at
least if you want to use gpt and boot from it.

I don't know if booting from lvm works.

Why do you want to use LVM for your system/main partition?

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