Hmm…. Busy trying out w.bloggar to post. Seems quite cute for a Windows app.

Spent part of yesterday and today setting up LVM over RAID1 on the server that hosts my blog (as well as mail for about 30-40 users). Installation was pretty straightforward, although the RAID resync took aaaaages (900-odd minutes!), so I left it running overnight. Haven’t moved anything onto the new array yet – I do most things remotely, so I’ll start start moving the mail spool, etc over before moving the OS over.

Took a bit of fiddling, but finally decided on the following disk layout:

/dev/vg_raid1/home    26213596     32840  26180756   1% /mnt/raid/home
/dev/vg_raid1/usr      4194172    234324   3959848   6% /mnt/raid/usr
/dev/vg_raid1/var      5242716     32840   5209876   1% /mnt/raid/var
/dev/vg_raid1/spool   41941756     32840  41908916   1% /mnt/raid/var/spool

(Note: Everything is mounted on /mnt/raid while I move the data across)

Once the move to the new RAID is done I’m gonna try and move the users over to Cyrus and then upgrade to the 2.6 kernel.