From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] software RAID over LVM From: Austin Gonyou In-Reply-To: <20020130094342.GA13425@colombina.comedia.it> References: <20020130094342.GA13425@colombina.comedia.it> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SfE7DzmuHq6Wsx4C5r7t" Message-Id: <1012410289.11805.0.camel@UberGeek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Jan 30 11:05:02 2002 List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --=-SfE7DzmuHq6Wsx4C5r7t Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Right, that's what I'm talking about. If you didn't do it that way, you'd be screwed! :)=20 On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 03:43, Luca Berra wrote: > Well, since the whole point of having LVM is ease of resizing logical > volumes, > and resizing MD device is impossible or painful, i do not really > understand > why should anyone want to do this. > If mirroring were to be implemented over lvm, it should be at the PE/LE > level, > in the LVM driver itself, since this is not true (search archives for > the reasoning > behind this) the only sensible chance is having LVM over MD. >=20 > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:58:26PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > I can think of MANY uses for this. The main one would be a relatively > > cheap way of making a RAID0+1, or stripe of mirrors. If you don't have > > any hardware to do this with, then software is next. It'd be nice to > be > > able to do this, for sure. You could even do 0+5, or something crazy > > like that too. >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ >=20 > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html --=20 Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-698-7250 email: austin@coremetrics.com "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." Latin Proverb --=-SfE7DzmuHq6Wsx4C5r7t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8WCew94g6ZVmFMoIRAortAJ99VrkPi7PADuiUsVHRl7qgV5+mGwCgy7wk iPxwAa4T4abYqUYLOuNbyds= =jR/k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SfE7DzmuHq6Wsx4C5r7t--