[olug] Reiserfs/LVM Best Practices

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Tue Jan 27 06:42:07 UTC 2004


at this juncture, root lvm is doable, but it is about as much mojo as it once was with root on sw raid.
I tend to run production machines with the root seperate from lvm, with reiser ( but always on raid .. sw or hw ) 



On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:43:42PM -0600, Dave Thacker wrote:
> We've been working to get gentoo installed on a server at work.  It's been an 
> uphill battle.  It seems there is some trickery needed to use a root 
> partition with LVM.  I've seen a couple of posts to the gentoo forums 
> indicating that it was probably best not to use LVM on the root partition.  
> If you run LVM, do you use it for root?
> Thanks!
> 
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