From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:57:04 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RAID and LVM? Message-ID: <19990727145704.B11652@colombina.comedia.it> Reply-To: bluca@comedia.it References: <199907271227.AA28175@mailgate1b.telekom.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199907271227.AA28175@mailgate1b.telekom.de>; from Heinz Mauelshagen on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 02:23:53PM +0000 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@msede.com On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 02:23:53PM +0000, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > i believe useful integrating raid and lvm > > it means a user can dcide the different raid policy ... > That's the Veritas Volume Manager concept. that is what i am accustomed to. i usually work on hp servers. are you suggesting there are better ways to do things? > > as a side question, how does LVM autodetect works > > (if it exists, that is)? > Today, it's the initrd mechanism (partially) supported by lvmcreate_initrd > in LVM 0.7. that is what i tought, see my previous msg but the scan is done in user space, i was asking if some kernel space solution existed/was planned/has any sense what i want to do is have both raid and LVM work and be autodetected at boot even if both are compiled as modules. why would i want to do this? Distributions, i would like both raid and lvm to become a standard part of all linux distributions. i hope that there will be some improvements in boot loaders, so we can avoid the small bios addressable partition, and completely avoid the idiotic pc partitioning cheme. Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communications Media & Services S.r.l.