From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:01:43 +0900 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C6B5D7.7060801@tequila.co.jp> References: <40498.194.60.85.4.1086343953.squirrel@194.60.85.4> <40C346A6.1000001@xss.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40C346A6.1000001@xss.co.at> To: Andreas Haumer Cc: Robin Bowes , Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ... - -- Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration ========================================================== TEQUILA\Japan, 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 http://www.tequila.co.jp ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxrXWjBz/yQjBxz8RAnu/AJ0YlAnEXGxK3hBiGmSWJiOfT3O+rQCgheXZ V5DTW6ESA7M8W9ZbUklefd8= =jwFK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----