From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933879AbYEBBYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 21:24:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758021AbYEBBXt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 21:23:49 -0400 Received: from vps1.tull.net ([66.180.172.116]:40671 "HELO vps1.tull.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758789AbYEBBXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 21:23:47 -0400 X-Spam-Check-By: mail.local.tull.net Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:37 +1000 From: Nick Andrew To: Alex Davis Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <771640.4981.qm@web50209.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.26, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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