On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:32:16PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 11/24/2015 07:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
it seemed to max out at around 9900 MB. This for sure won't do when I build it on real hardware, so I'm wondering if anyone else here has a clue what's going on??
IIRC, Anaconda can't create "raid1" LVM volumes. That is, you can't create LVs that are mirrored across multiple PVs. You can create md RAID1 volumes and make a PV of the resulting RAID volume, though.
So I think what you're probably doing is creating 100MB /boot partition, and then two md RAID component partitions of 9900MB.
yeah, you're probably right. but for some reason, Anaconda is still telling me there's a gigabyte of unused space remaining (105x megabytes where i've forgotten what the "x" was.) Might that be because I didn't put swap on both drives (and I think I set up swap as a gig)?
should I put swap on both drives? should it be RAID1 also, or just two swap partitions not in any RAID volume?
(I remember seeing a somewhat technical article in the last couple of years that talked of a potential corruption issue if one puts swap into a Linux software RAID-1 volume, but no longer recall the details.)