I have a pair of solid state drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdc) and a hard drive (/dev/sdb). I would like to install the system to the hard drive, collect the SSD's into a Raid-0, and divide up that Raid-0 into swap space and cache for the hard drive.
I have got as far as installing the system to the hard drive with the mint installer, which produces:
sdb1: /boot/efi
sdb2: LVM2 PV --> mint-vg/root & mint-vg/swap_1
I am able also to build the raid. One thing I'm not sure about is whether to create multiple independent raid0 LV's for swap, cache and cache_meta or to create a single contiguous LV on the raid, and divide that up into swap, cache and cache_meta.
I am able to move the default swap by modifying /etc/fstab to point to the new swap partition on the raid, and also create the cache pool. Reboots fine.
However, when linking the cache pool with the origin volume, I am no longer able to reboot, and drop into initramfs.
Is what I am doing supported by LVM? What is the right way to do this? Also, I would like to add LUKS to each drive/partition. Another post on here suggested RAID be the lowest level, then LUKS then LVM. But since I am using LVM to create the raid, I'm not sure how that affects the ordering.
