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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm on linux RAID5?
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Anders,

That should work. I run LVM on top of one raid5 device but I don't see 
why it wouldn't work over 4 of them.

For example run pvcreate on /dev/sda, then /dev/sdb, etc..

What kind of machine did you manage to get 4 RAID5 arrays into?



Anders Henriksson wrote:

> Hej,
>
> I have tried scanning the list archive and re-read the documentation but
> still....
>
> I want to run lvm over four linux raid5 devices, can I just treat the
> raid devices as discs? i.e. run pvcreate on them directly and go on from
> there.
>
> I am running a linux 7.3 server almost out of the box.
>
> /Anders
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