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>>>>> "ALN" == Anthony Luke Nelson <tony.nelson@pobox.com> writes:

ALN> I was messing with SUSE 7.3 and in their LVM control
ALN> panel, it only seemed to suport linear or striping.

LVM itself can do striping or concatenation of PVs, but Linux has a
complete software RAID system and it will do RAID5 just fine.  Build a
RAID array and run pvcreate on it.  The Software-RAID-HOWTO has some
useful info on building the array.

 - J<