From: Jon Bendtsen <jon+lvm@silicide.dk>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] software mirroring
Date: Tue Sep 10 07:10:02 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7DE10F.733BFCE6@silicide.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020907204200.GA3481@localhost
José Luis Domingo López wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 07 September 2002, at 10:34:40 -0400,
> Scott Savarese wrote:
> There shouldn't be any problems at all, except for bootup: it can be
> tricky (complex, prone to error or simply impossible, I don't know ;)
> to get a box boot off a LV on top of a software RAID1. But technically,
> it should be as simple as creating a partition on each disk, creating
> the RAID1 from them, initialize /dev/md0 as a PV for use with LVM,
> create a VG consisting of just this PV, and finally create as many LV as
> you need (size permitting).
Thats the way to do it.
> I have not had the chance to try it by myself, due to lack of hardware,
> but should work. Maybe the hard part is to do it at install time and get
> the system to boot from a LV created this way.
I have tried it, and it works fine.
JonB
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 8:51 [linux-lvm] software mirroring Scott Savarese
2002-09-06 15:12 ` José Luis Domingo López
2002-09-07 9:35 ` Scott Savarese
2002-09-07 15:42 ` José Luis Domingo López
2002-09-10 7:10 ` Jon Bendtsen [this message]
2002-09-10 8:40 ` Scott Savarese
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2002-09-09 8:41 Scott Savarese
2002-09-09 9:02 ` Steven Lembark
2002-09-09 10:38 ` Luca Berra
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2002-09-10 5:33 ` Luca Berra
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2002-09-11 1:48 ` Luca Berra
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[not found] ` <3D7E0CC0.D7B06D44@silicide.dk>
[not found] ` <2951.24.46.54.254.1031678903.squirrel@mail.scottsavarese.com>
2002-09-11 3:03 ` jon+lvm
2002-09-13 8:30 ` Scott Savarese
2002-09-13 8:46 ` Steven Lembark
2002-09-13 11:08 ` Scott Savarese
2002-09-13 11:16 ` Luca Berra
2002-09-13 11:46 ` Scott Savarese
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