From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm on linux RAID5? From: Anders Henriksson In-Reply-To: <3DAD6971.3040305@ednet.ns.ca> References: <1034773372.1658.8.camel@frodo.xelin.se> <3DAD6971.3040305@ednet.ns.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1034779135.1652.13.camel@frodo.xelin.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Oct 16 09:59:43 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >