From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Andrew Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:37 +1000 Message-ID: <20080502012337.GD13463@tull.net> References: <771640.4981.qm@web50209.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <771640.4981.qm@web50209.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Davis Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:35:07AM -0700, Alex Davis wrote: > Is this a bad thing? I'm guessing that it is, but I want independent > confirmation before I spoke to someone I know who's doing this. I use it to ensure that multiple partitions are RAIDed. I have a /boot partition which is ext3 and a large LVM partition. Both of them are RAID-1 onto a second drive (md0 and md1) for redundancy. The second drive has an identical partition table to the first drive. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7