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 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9VHZGr23526 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:35:16 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9VHZA2N024020 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:35:10 -0500 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COJbh-000123-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:35:09 +0100 Received: from triangulo.it.uc3m.es ([163.117.139.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:35:09 +0100 Received: from ptb by triangulo.it.uc3m.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:35:09 +0100 From: Peter T. Breuer Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:34:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1akf52-0m.ln1@triangulo.it.uc3m.es> References: <41814060.4040400@mikebabcock.ca> Sender: news Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: What is the best way to configure LVM + RAID? 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: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > OK, so like what is the best way to configure multiple inconsistently sized > disks into a RAID5 LVM? Will you still be able to resize the array by > adding and dropping disks? Well, you'll just have to make a raid5 of the minimum size (of any three of your disks :), and do something else with the rest of the remaining space. Peter