[Starlingx-discuss] Installation on a specific raid configuration?

[Marcel Schaible]

Thanks Don for your quick response.

So I guess that this partion scheme is fixed?
Do you have any suggestions/documentation how to configure a mirrored system for fail-over?

Marcel

> "Penney, Don" <Don.Penney at windriver.com> hat am 15. Januar 2019 um 16:21 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> The initial primary disk filesystems are preconfigured by the kickstarts for each node. For the standard controller, for example, this is:
> - 500M for a boot partition
> - 20G for the rootfs (/)
> - the remainder for the primary volume group (currently named cgts-vg), which is used for various system volumes.
> 
> In addition, you've got the EFI partition that's automatically created as 300M. For legacy boot systems, there is a smaller BIOS boot partition.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcel Schaible [mailto:marcel at schaible-consulting.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 8:41 AM
> To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Installation on a specific raid configuration?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install the 20190109 iso on a raid configuration with two nvme disks.
> 
> The installer by default creates the following disk layout and does not obye an existing partioning scheme:
> 
> #         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
>  1         2048       616447    300M  EFI System      EFI System Partition
>  2       616448      1640447    500M  Microsoft basic
>  3      1640448     42600447   19.5G  Microsoft basic
>  4     42600448    430573567    185G  Linux LVM
> 
> Questions: 
> For waht are these partition #2 and #3 are used? 
> 
> Actually we would like to have for a fail over scenario the following layout:
> 
> #         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
>  1         2048       616447    300M  EFI System      EFI System Partition
>  2       616448       ......    950G  Raid mirrored to second nvme1n1p2
>  3       .......      ......    32G   swap
> 
> Is there a way to tell the installer this configuartion?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marcel
> 
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