From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s1OIuYTp001253 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:56:36 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f180.google.com (mail-pd0-f180.google.com [209.85.192.180]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s1OIuWGx021912 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:56:32 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f180.google.com with SMTP id y10so1040320pdj.11 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ssh2.neuro.berkeley.edu (ssh2.Neuro.Berkeley.EDU. [169.229.248.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id yz5sm125359567pac.9.2014.02.24.10.56.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:56:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:56:29 -0800 From: Julie Ashworth Message-ID: <20140224185629.GA28182@ssh2.neuro.berkeley.edu> References: <20140222071408.GA10598@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LV mirror extents on same physical device 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On 22-02-2014 11.12 +0100, emmanuel segura wrote: > i don't understand why you are using two mirror technologies together, i'm > using in lvm mirror without mdadm and never found problems ---end quoted text--- hi Emmanuel, I personally prefer to use mdadm RAID1, and I'm only using lvm mirroring to recover from an mdadm failure. If you want to learn more, I encourage you to join the mailing list for mdadm issues (linux-raid@vger.kernel.org). best, Julie