Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>]

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Andreas Haumer wrote:
| Hi!
|
| Robin Bowes wrote:
|
|>>On Fri, June 4, 2004 7:29, Neil Brown said:
|>>
|>>
|>>> - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
|>>>   and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the
necessary
|>>>   device files after allocating an unused array number.
|>>
|>>
|>>Neil,
|>>
|>>I am interpreting this to mean that I can create, for example, a
large (e.g. 1TB) RAID5
|>>array and create smaller partitions (/home, /usr, etc) on top of the
RAID5 array? Is
|>>this correct?
|>>
|
| Hm.
| Why would anyone use this, given that we can put LVM on
| top of SW-RAID?

Well I'd say to leave out one area of problems. LVM might get buggy or
cause troubles. And if you can create partitions in a SW raid you can
avoid that.

eg on a firewall I want only real necessary software and LVM is
definitly not one of them ...

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