Re: A question about RAID and partitions

["Shawn Everett" <shawn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Isn't there any space for something in which the disks are made parts of
> RAID arrays *before* the partitions are created and yet all the RAID
> operations would be made by the main CPU and so it would still be
> considered
> software RAID? What would happen if the equivalent of mdadm was *included*
> in the OS kernel?
>
> Thank you.
>

You could always combine software raid and LVM.

Create a RAID1 device using Software RAID.

Then set up LVM with the apropriate LVM logical volumes under /dev/md0 or
whatever.

Shawn
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