From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i57HnJ024055 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:49:19 -0400 Received: from p15141853.pureserver.info ([217.160.223.157]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i57HnHi5026843 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:49:18 -0400 Received: from [217.231.15.135] (pD9E70F87.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.231.15.135]) by p15141853.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5674843C7 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:49:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40C4AA7B.306@digital-touch.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:48:43 +0200 From: philip MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] software raid or lvm? References: <40C48905.80608@blocked.name> <20040607153809.GM31405@kluge.net> In-Reply-To: <20040607153809.GM31405@kluge.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development hi, i'm sorry that i wasn't more clear. i used to have raid0 with the siimage binary driver, but that is only for 2.4 kernels. so i've to use software raid and i didn't find the way how to put lvm on top of software raid. or how can i do it? however, in suse admin guide is written about lvm: 'several hard disks can be used with improved performance in the raid0 (striping) mode.' any idea? can i use lvm as raid0? course, the best is raid and lvm on top, but if i can use only lvm, how fast it would be? can i check the speed? thank you philip Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:25:57PM +0200, philip wrote: > >>like to install suse91, which doesn't support siimage chipset, so i've to >>use software raid or lvm. >>what would be better/faster? > > > Well, what are you trying to do? If you want redundancy, go with RAID. > If you want volume management, go with LVM. I'd say you should do both > (RAID the disks then use LVM on top), but without more data there is no > answer for "better/faster". > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/