From: "Matthew B. Brookover" <mbrookov@mines.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on RAID
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:55:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158760524.26653.4.camel@merlin.Mines.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609191650560.1397@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu>
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I have used LVM on top of software raid and ISCSI. It works well. It
also helps keep track of what device is where. ISCSI does not export
its targets in the same order, some times sdb shows up as sdc.... LVM
will keep track of what is what.
Matt
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:53 -0500, Alexander Lazarevich wrote:
> We have several RAID devices (16-24 drive Fiber/SCSI attached RAID) which
> are currently single devices on our 64bit linux servers (RHEL-4, core5).
> We are considering LVM'ing 2 or more of the RAID's into a LVM group. I
> don't doubt the reliability and robustness of LVM2 on single drives, but I
> worry about it on top of RAID devices.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with LVM on to of RAID volumes, positive
> or negative?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-18 18:10 [linux-lvm] HDD Failure Nick
2006-09-18 19:08 ` Mitch Miller
2006-09-18 19:13 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:23 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-18 19:34 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:37 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-19 22:40 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation (was: HDD Failure) Scott Lamb
2006-09-20 0:35 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 3:22 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-20 11:27 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 19:45 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation Barnaby Claydon
2006-09-20 10:50 ` Morten Torstensen
2006-09-20 11:40 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-09-20 12:41 ` Les Mikesell
2006-09-21 9:42 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-09-21 12:52 ` Les Mikesell
2006-09-20 13:22 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation (was: HDD Failure) Tobias Bluhm
2006-09-20 23:21 ` Scott Lamb
2006-09-18 19:42 ` [linux-lvm] HDD Failure Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-18 19:52 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:57 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-19 21:53 ` [linux-lvm] LVM on RAID Alexander Lazarevich
2006-09-19 22:03 ` Roger Lucas
2006-09-24 17:19 ` Nix
2006-09-19 22:04 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-19 22:11 ` Michael Loftis
2006-09-20 0:30 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 13:55 ` Matthew B. Brookover [this message]
2006-09-20 14:01 ` Michael T. Babcock
2006-09-20 14:48 ` Alexander Lazarevich
2006-09-20 15:57 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-21 3:19 ` Andrew Boyko
2006-09-20 17:24 ` Mark H. Wood
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2006-09-20 14:59 Marlier, Ian
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