From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpn-248-32.boston.redhat.com [10.13.248.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8KBePmI024544 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:40:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:40:19 +0200 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation Message-ID: <20060920114019.GA4796@redhat.com> References: <1158603016.7182.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <450EEEA0.7020703@mdmiller.com> <1158606792.7182.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158607438.19905.30.camel@bounty.rider.geekspirit.net> <1158608077.7182.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060918193728.GC28043@arvo.suso.org> <4B875923-CB76-4792-837B-EDA3B9E53756@slamb.org> <45111CDA.6080406@mortent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45111CDA.6080406@mortent.org> Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: morten@mortent.org, LVM general discussion and development On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:50:02PM +0200, Morten Torstensen wrote: > Scott Lamb wrote: > >This is my biggest beef with LVM - why doesn't *any* of the > >documentation point this out? There are very few good reasons to use LVM > >without RAID, and "ignorance" certainly isn't among them. I don't see > >any mention of RAID or disk failures in the manual pages or in the HOWTO. > > Mirroring should be dealt with in LVM itself, by mapping more PEs on > physical seperate PVs to each LE. From the little information I've seen > about the new LVM mirroring, it seems that the mirrors are defined on LV > level instead of LE/PE. But after some JFGI sessions nothing really > enlightening has shown up. LVM2 does mirror by grouping multiple (hidden) logical volumes into a mirror set. > > -- > > //Morten Torstensen > //Email: morten@mortent.org > //IM: Cartoon@jabber.no morten.torstensen@gmail.com > > And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. > The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-