Dmraid IS software raid (Sorta). Some people call it "fakeraid", which is basically a mix between hardware and software raid. I'm glad to hear that dmraid works just fine for you. You don't even need to use lvm, b/c dmraid does that all for you. All you need to do, is install on one of the partitons in /dev/mapper. This is easier said than done however (Depending on which distro you want to use) -ben striker wrote: >Please forgive my ignorance. I'll provide any info required. Here's my >situation. > >I've been running a windows box with a promise fastrak controller. It's >got two disks in a striped configuration. > >I recently installed an indepented 3rd disk, used it to install FC3, and >set up dmraid. dmraid recognized my raid and the entries in /dev/mapper >exist: > >crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Apr 29 00:19 control >brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 0 May 18 12:41 pdc_djbcgacc >brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 1 May 18 12:41 pdc_djbcgacc1 >brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 2 May 18 12:41 pdc_djbcgacc5 > >The total disk space on the raid is 120 GB. I haven't allocated it all. >I want to use the unused space to create a linux "partition". This is >where I start to flounder. I don't have any experience configuring >software raid on Linux. > >It seems like I should use LVM2 somehow except that I'm not sure how to do >so without destroying what I've already got on the disks. Here's the >output of lvmdiskscan: > > /dev/hda [ 3.74 GB] > /dev/hde [ 57.25 GB] > /dev/hdg [ 57.25 GB] > /dev/hda1 [ 2.73 GB] > /dev/hde1 [ 4.89 GB] > /dev/hda2 [ 1019.75 MB] > /dev/hde2 [ 1.00 KB] > 3 disks > 4 partitions > 0 LVM physical volume whole disks > 0 LVM physical volumes > >What's my next step here? Please talk to me like I am 3 years old. > >Thanks in advance. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
