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From: Anders Henriksson <anders.henriksson@xelin.se>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm on linux RAID5?
Date: Wed Oct 16 09:59:43 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034779135.1652.13.camel@frodo.xelin.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAD6971.3040305@ednet.ns.ca>

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:28, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> 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..

It seems to work fine, I just tried it and it works smoother than
expected.

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

It is actually not that hard, take your one array and split it into 4.
I have 4 discs which are split into 4 raid partitions each.

/Anders



> 
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > linux-lvm mailing list
> > linux-lvm@sistina.com
> > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16  8:24 [linux-lvm] lvm on linux RAID5? Anders Henriksson
2002-10-16  8:57 ` Patrick Boutilier
2002-10-16  9:59   ` Anders Henriksson [this message]
2002-10-17  4:02     ` Jon Bendtsen
2002-10-17  6:06       ` Anders Henriksson
2002-10-16  9:14 ` Andreas Baier
2002-10-16 12:33 ` Goetz Bock
2002-10-17  4:06   ` Jon Bendtsen
2002-10-19 12:01 ` Steven Lembark

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