From: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>
To: Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>
Cc: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>,
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:01:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C6B5D7.7060801@tequila.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C346A6.1000001@xss.co.at>
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Andreas Haumer wrote:
| Hi!
|
| Robin Bowes wrote:
|
|>>On Fri, June 4, 2004 7:29, Neil Brown said:
|>>
|>>
|>>> - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
|>>> and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the
necessary
|>>> device files after allocating an unused array number.
|>>
|>>
|>>Neil,
|>>
|>>I am interpreting this to mean that I can create, for example, a
large (e.g. 1TB) RAID5
|>>array and create smaller partitions (/home, /usr, etc) on top of the
RAID5 array? Is
|>>this correct?
|>>
|
| Hm.
| Why would anyone use this, given that we can put LVM on
| top of SW-RAID?
Well I'd say to leave out one area of problems. LVM might get buggy or
cause troubles. And if you can create partitions in a SW raid you can
avoid that.
eg on a firewall I want only real necessary software and LVM is
definitly not one of them ...
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Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-09 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-04 10:12 ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Robin Bowes
2004-06-06 16:30 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-06-06 21:46 ` Neil Brown
2004-06-07 7:50 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2004-06-07 15:54 ` Joe Pruett
2004-06-08 14:11 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2004-06-09 7:01 ` Clemens Schwaighofer [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-06 22:58 Norman Schmidt
2004-06-04 6:29 Neil Brown
2004-06-04 10:12 ` Robin Bowes
2004-06-04 12:13 ` Neil Brown
2004-06-04 13:31 ` me
2004-06-04 14:21 ` Guy
2004-06-05 2:51 ` me
2004-06-05 6:08 ` Neil Brown
2004-06-06 22:50 ` me
2004-06-05 6:36 ` David Greaves
2004-06-06 22:52 ` me
2004-06-04 15:00 ` Robin Bowes
2004-06-04 15:22 ` David Greaves
2004-06-04 15:27 ` Robin Bowes
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