From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199907142305.AA12097@mailgate1b.telekom.de> From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RAID and LVM? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 1:04:58 METDST In-Reply-To: ; from "Paul Jakma" at Jul 14, 99 11:38 pm Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Jakma Cc: mge@ts1.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, linux-lvm@msede.com > > I'm wondering: is it possible to run LVM on top of the linux-raid > patches? Yes, go ahead. LVM can run on MD. > > I'd like to carve up my disks into 500MB RAID-5 devices, and then > build LVM on top of the /dev/md devices instead of the usual > /dev/sd{a1,b1.. etc} devices. > > Should I try it? or do the 2 patches tread on each others toes? (i > notice they both touch buffer.c). No they don't. lvm remaps in ll_rw_blk.c before md does. > > if it can't be done, then are there any plans to integrate linux-raid > and linux-lvm, or change LVM to able to use md devices? > > (LVM and RAID are very complementary... really should be merged) > Regards, Heinz -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systemmanagement CS/TS T-Nova Entwicklungszentrum Darmstadt Heinz Mauelshagen Otto-Roehm-Strasse 71c Senior Systems Engineer Postfach 10 05 41 64205 Darmstadt mge@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de Germany +49 6151 886-425 FAX-386 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-