LVM-on-IDE-RAID-HOWTO Outline
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David Young (davidy@funkypenguin.co.za)
1st draft, 2002-08-24


Introduction

1.1 This Document
1.2 Latest version
1.3 Disclaimer
1.4 Author

2. RAID

2.1 What is RAID?
2.2 Why would I want RAID?
2.3 RAID levels 0-5
2.4 IDE RAID

3. LVM

3.1 What is LVM?
3.2 Why would I want LVM?

4. LVM on RAID

4.1 Why combine the two?
4.2 Advantages
4.3 Disadvantages

5. Ingredients

5.1 Hardware
5.2 Software

5.2.1 Choice of distribution

6. Installing base system

6.1 Partitioning the drive
6.2 Installing the system

7. Installing RAID

7.1 Partitioning the drive, using fdisk
7.2 Creating the "crippled" RAID devices
7.3 Creating RAID devices
7.4 Creating new /boot filesystem

8. Recompiling the kernel

8.1 Kernel basics
8.2 Choosing kernel options / modules
8.3 Compiling & installing the kernel

9. Creating LVM Initial RAM Disk

9.1 Create default lvm initrd
9.2 Modifying your initrd
9.3 Adding extra modules, resolving dependencies
9.4 Adding required binaries
9.5 Adding custom raidtab
9.6 Modify linuxrc
9.7 Tidying up

10. Installing LVM

10.1 Create Physical volume
10.2 Create Volume Group
10.3 Create Logical Volumes

10.3.1 Create root
10.3.2 Create swap

11. Transferring system

11.1 Mounting LVM filestructure
11.2 Transferring root
11.3 Transferring /boot
11.4 Modifying fstab

12. Booting into LVM

12.1 Configuring lilo
12.2 Trouble-shooting startup

13. Recovering RAID

13.1 Re-partitioning the drive, using fdisk
13.2 Modifying /etc/raidtab
13.3 Hot-adding the drive, and syncing
13.4 Modifying lilo

14. Wrapping up.

14.1 Possible applications
14.2 Reporting errors
14.3 References