[olug] Reiserfs/LVM Best Practices

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Mon Jan 26 23:47:31 UTC 2004


I would usually recommend that you have your root filesystem outside of
LVM, and if possible have a non-mirrored copy of your root/boot
filesystems on another drive. It just depends on how cautious you want to
be.............

> 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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