[clug] Booting: Debian stable uses grub 1 or 2? recognising LVM's

jm jeffm at ghostgun.com
Mon Mar 4 01:29:12 MST 2013



Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 04/03/13 17:54, steve jenkin wrote:
>   
>> I'm setting up a new desktop soon, probably Debian stable.
>>
>> Will fit two disks, an SSD and HDD. Part of my experimenting will be
>> using an LVM module that spreads files across SSD/HDD based on the
>> amount of (read?) access they get.
>>     
>
> Difficult to understand the advantages of that... how big is this SSD??
> While I can understand the advantages of faster read access for
> /non-home files, why not just put them on the SSD??
>
>   

My guess is his playing with something like lvmts or some other 
Hierarchical Storage Manager software. Whether this is worth it in this 
particular case is another question.


Jeff.



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