links for 2009-01-25

Instructions for installing a very clean Debian GNU/Linux system that boots from RAID 1, and has RAID 1 or RAID 5 root and data filesystems.

I hope to turn this into a general easy to follow guide to setting up RAID-5 and LVM on a modern Linux system. However, for now it's basically a collection of my notes as I experimented on my own systems. Please note that my own experimentation was based on the RAID and LVM implementations under Fedora Core 3 & 4, as wel as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, all of which are based on the 2.6 series of kernels.

This is an attempt to collect everything needed to know to get LVM up and running. The entire process of getting, compiling, installing, and setting up LVM will be covered. Pointers to LVM configurations that have been tested with will also be included. This version of the HowTo is for LVM 2 with device-mapper and LVM 1.0.8.