From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38A579D3.90A93436@moose.net> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:18:43 -0500 From: Brian Kress MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Mirroring References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: A James Lewis Cc: Chris Anderson , h.milz@seneca.muc.de, "linux-lvm@msede.com" A James Lewis wrote: > > What you're asking is can LVM be used in conjunction with MD, and is this > the correct solution or is LVM/MD going to merge or LVM duplicate MD's > work?? Yes. LVM on MD works great. I have a 4 disk RAID 5 that I run LVM on to chop up into more managable chunks. 40GB for a single FS is a bit excessive. I do this with the new raid 0.90. I've never tried it with the kernel standard raid, but I think I've seem success reports. Applying the LVM patch and the raid0.90 patch gets you some errors in ll_rw_block.c, but if you know C, you can pretty much figure out how to patch it by hand. If anyone wants to do this and needs help with the patches, I'd be happy to help. LVM on top of MD is great. I get redundancy and managability. Brian