good point. I should mention mdadm vs btrfs vs zfs options at the begining of the procedure.
Unfortunately, I do not know the answer as I have not tried using two thin partitions.
What would the advantage of making two thin pools be as opposed to having just one thin pool?
(and what does having a thin pool with just one volume (the root volume) in it accomplish beyond making it just a static (non-thin) root partition?)
Separate pools are to still have bootable dom0 even if you run out of space in the vm-pool. And root-pool being a thin pool is to allow thin snapshots there (something that wyng-backup and similar tools can utilize).
This is what installer does by default nowadays if you select LVM (default) partitioning.
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First of all thank you for the guide, it worked well for me!
I’ve tested the idea of not creating the thinpool, the result ist that further on the installation steps you get the error:
[‘/usr/sbin/vcreate’, ‘-l’, ‘90%FREE’, ‘–thinpool’, ‘luks-…’] failed¨
stdout: “”
stderr: “Volume group luks-…” not found Cannot process group luks-…"
Has anybody managed to do it on latest 4.3?
I was able to install 4.3 completely with LVM raid5, no separate mdadm needed. LVM uses mdraid under the hood.
I did the whole configuration within the blivet-gui.
The correct names for the different lvm objects are mandatory. After using them, it worked without any warnings or errrors.
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