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From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:21:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068787304.4157.8.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16308.18387.142415.469027@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

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On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:11, Neil Brown wrote:
> RFCI == Request For Clever Ideas.
> 
> Hi all..
> 
>  I want be able to partition "md" raid arrays.
>  e.g. I want to be able to use RAID1 to mirror sda and sdb as whole
>  drives, and then partitions that into root, swap, other (or whatever
>  suits the particular situation).

<snip>

Can't LVM do this?  I have a raid array (mirror) that is LVM'd into
multiple partitions.  It currently runs 2.4, but it should work fine
with 2.6, right?  All the rest of my boxes have 2.6 and LVM, but no raid
(no duplicate hard drives).
-- 
Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-14  3:11 [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6 Neil Brown
2003-11-14  5:09 ` viro
2003-11-14  5:32   ` Neil Brown
2003-11-14  5:21 ` Daniel Gryniewicz [this message]
2003-11-14  5:30   ` Neil Brown
2003-11-14 10:16     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-11-14 18:29       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-14 21:44         ` Matt Domsch
2003-11-14 22:45           ` viro
2003-11-17  0:46         ` Automatic Write Reallocation Enable, question? Guy
2003-11-14  5:27 ` [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6 Daniel Pittman
2003-11-14  6:10   ` viro
2003-11-14  7:39 ` Luca Berra
2003-11-14  8:04 ` Paul Jakma

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