From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:29:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031114182927.GA8810@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031114101647.GJ32211@marowsky-bree.de>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:16:47AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2003-11-14T16:30:42,
> Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> said:
>
> > There are issues with the raid superblock but assuming they can be
> > solved, I want partitioning to work easily.
> >
> > Can LVM work happily with 'legacy' partitioning information?
>
> I'd really suggest to run DM (either LVM2 or EVMS2) on top of md
> instead. It's much more flexible; I don't see any benefit in 'old style'
> partition information, which has all sorts of problems - ie,
> non-transactional updates (_why_ were you running raid again? ;), static
> as they can't be modified during runtime etc.
This brings up a tangent point... partitions on top of RAID are a new
thing, which means that one has the chance to define the partition
format.
And I kinda like EFI partition format, a lot better than the other
common ones...
Jeff
P.S. No, this isn't a blanket endorsement of EFI as a whole :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 3:11 [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6 Neil Brown
2003-11-14 5:09 ` viro
2003-11-14 5:32 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-14 5:21 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-11-14 5:30 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-14 10:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-11-14 18:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-11-14 21:44 ` Matt Domsch
2003-11-14 22:45 ` viro
2003-11-17 0:46 ` Automatic Write Reallocation Enable, question? Guy
2003-11-17 0:46 ` Guy
2003-11-14 5:27 ` [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6 Daniel Pittman
2003-11-14 6:10 ` viro
2003-11-14 7:39 ` Luca Berra
2003-11-14 8:04 ` Paul Jakma
2003-11-14 8:04 ` Paul Jakma
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