[lug] LVM on RAID on Ubuntu

[Ben Whaley]

> 4) Any special installation caveats or quirks of the Ubuntu installer I
need to know about?

IIRC, the Ubuntu desktop installer does not include an LVM option. I think I
had to do a command line or server install. I remember it being much more
confusing to configure than during a RHEL/CentOs/Fedora install.


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:

> durist at frii.com wrote:
>  > 1) Can I put /boot and swap on LVM?
>
> Put boot on it's own RAID-1 set, and then everything else on LVM.
>
>  > 2) For swap, is there a significant performance penalty?
>
> Once you're using swap, you're already in a one thousand fold performance
> loss, so do you really care?
>
>  > 3) Can I use grub, or do I have to use lilo? Is there any special
>  > configuration I need to do?
>
> The installer should take care of it.
>
>  > 4) Any special installation caveats or quirks of the Ubuntu installer I
> need
>  > to know about?
>
> I don't recall.
>
> Realize that LVM for everything but boot is pretty common these days,
> Fedora has used that as it's default partition layout for quite a long
> time.  I'm running swap+root on LVM on my laptop and it works fine.  Have
> been for years.
>
> Sean
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