[nmglug] production server question follow-up

[Andres Paglayan]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:08 -0600, J. Marsden DeLapp wrote:

> Andres Paglayan wrote:
> > now I just ordered the hardware, since the chassis supports 8 disks, and 
> > the mobo 6,
> > so I purchased 8 disks just to have two identical spares sitting there 
> > unplugged.
> 
> You should plug in the spares somewhere and run them for at least 24 hours to make sure they have a good burn-in and 
> identify any that would fail from infant mortality.

clever, didn't think of it

> 
> > Since I don't see myself changing or adding disks during the life of the 
> > server,
> > I will not do LVM on top.
> 
> I would use LVM. I have learned that plans change and always using LVM makes life easier when the unexpected change happens.
> 

the other unspoken truth about avoiding LVM is my lack of experience on
building complex disk partitions,
specially dealing with the boot partition on these scenarios,
I am foreseeing a lot of reading here


> Mars
> 
> 

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