From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mike@mikebabcock.ca>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on RAID
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:01:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <451149CD.3070804@mikebabcock.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158760524.26653.4.camel@merlin.Mines.EDU>
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I use LVM2 on software and hardware raid on a regular basis. Almost
every server I configure has hardware raid and all the machines I
support run LVM. No problems to report.
Matthew B. Brookover wrote:
> I have used LVM on top of software raid and ISCSI. It works well. It
> also helps keep track of what device is where. ISCSI does not export
> its targets in the same order, some times sdb shows up as sdc....
> LVM will keep track of what is what.
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:53 -0500, Alexander Lazarevich wrote:
>> We have several RAID devices (16-24 drive Fiber/SCSI attached RAID) which
>> are currently single devices on our 64bit linux servers (RHEL-4, core5).
>> We are considering LVM'ing 2 or more of the RAID's into a LVM group. I
>> don't doubt the reliability and robustness of LVM2 on single drives, but I
>> worry about it on top of RAID devices.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with LVM on to of RAID volumes, positive
>> or negative?
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-18 18:10 [linux-lvm] HDD Failure Nick
2006-09-18 19:08 ` Mitch Miller
2006-09-18 19:13 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:23 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-18 19:34 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:37 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-19 22:40 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation (was: HDD Failure) Scott Lamb
2006-09-20 0:35 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 3:22 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-20 11:27 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 19:45 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation Barnaby Claydon
2006-09-20 10:50 ` Morten Torstensen
2006-09-20 11:40 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-09-20 12:41 ` Les Mikesell
2006-09-21 9:42 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-09-21 12:52 ` Les Mikesell
2006-09-20 13:22 ` [linux-lvm] Misleading documentation (was: HDD Failure) Tobias Bluhm
2006-09-20 23:21 ` Scott Lamb
2006-09-18 19:42 ` [linux-lvm] HDD Failure Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-18 19:52 ` Nick
2006-09-18 19:57 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-19 21:53 ` [linux-lvm] LVM on RAID Alexander Lazarevich
2006-09-19 22:03 ` Roger Lucas
2006-09-24 17:19 ` Nix
2006-09-19 22:04 ` Mark Krenz
2006-09-19 22:11 ` Michael Loftis
2006-09-20 0:30 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-20 13:55 ` Matthew B. Brookover
2006-09-20 14:01 ` Michael T. Babcock [this message]
2006-09-20 14:48 ` Alexander Lazarevich
2006-09-20 15:57 ` Fabien Jakimowicz
2006-09-21 3:19 ` Andrew Boyko
2006-09-20 17:24 ` Mark H. Wood
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2006-09-20 14:59 Marlier, Ian
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