From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3TAHYjA029896 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:17:34 -0400 Received: from mail.osl.inic.no (mail02.osl.inic.no [85.19.150.32]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3TAHJfO015490 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:17:20 -0400 Received: from [192.168.3.149] (unverified [80.202.70.92]) by mail.osl.inic.no (Rockliffe SMTPRA 7.0.3) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:17:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4816F5B1.6010608@mortent.org> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:17:21 +0200 From: Morten Torstensen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM mirroring questions... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Marcin Ka�u�a wrote: > Why software RAID is not an option? It works with partitions as well as with > whole disks (actually it doesn't care what it is working on as long as it's > a block device) Because doing mirroring in the LVM is much easier as you don't have to set up the md layer. Simple LE to multiple PE mapping is easy to do and makes LVM mirroring easy and flexible. //Morten