From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mike@mikebabcock.ca>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Software raid on top of lvm logical volume
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:38:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41865881.6060107@mikebabcock.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41851771.4060203@markus.org>
Markus Baertschi wrote:
> You can make life easier by creating several raid arrays on the same
> disks and tie them together with LVM.
> For example split your three 160GB drives into 4 partitions each and
> create a raid over the three disks.
>
> sda -> sda1+sda2+sda3+sda4, etc.
> md0 = sda1+sdb1+sdc1, md1=sda2+sdb2+sdc2, etc.
And how exactly does that allow me to easily change how much RAID-0 or
RAID-5 storage I have?
If I need more RAID-5 storage and I want to steal it from RAID-0 space,
I need to dissassemble LVM, then software RAID, then repartition, then
rebuild RAID, then restore LVM.
--
Michael T. Babcock
http://mikebabcock.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 22:02 [linux-lvm] Software raid on top of lvm logical volume Eric Monjoin
2004-10-28 1:17 ` Theo Van Dinter
2004-10-28 6:01 ` Eric Monjoin
2004-10-28 6:35 ` Luca Berra
2004-10-28 19:17 ` [linux-lvm] " Peter T. Breuer
2004-11-01 16:01 ` Michael T. Babcock
2004-11-01 16:51 ` Erik Ohrnberger
2004-11-01 22:03 ` Clint Byrum
2004-11-01 22:07 ` Theo Van Dinter
2004-11-02 15:46 ` Michael T. Babcock
2004-10-28 18:54 ` [linux-lvm] " Michael T. Babcock
2004-10-30 16:55 ` [linux-lvm] " Peter T. Breuer
2004-10-30 17:10 ` [linux-lvm] What is the best way to configure LVM + RAID? Erik Ohrnberger
2004-10-31 17:34 ` [linux-lvm] " Peter T. Breuer
2004-10-30 17:27 ` [linux-lvm] Software raid on top of lvm logical volume Theo Van Dinter
2004-10-30 19:22 ` [linux-lvm] LVM DISK DIE "KieZz"
2004-10-31 16:48 ` [linux-lvm] Software raid on top of lvm logical volume Markus Baertschi
2004-11-01 6:46 ` Scott Serr
2004-11-01 15:38 ` Michael T. Babcock [this message]
2004-11-01 17:02 ` [linux-lvm] " Peter T. Breuer
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