On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:44:06PM -0800, Daniel McNeil wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:57, Joe Thornber wrote: > > > > Also it appears that md/raid1 and dm-mirror provide similar > > > functionality. Are there advantages of one over the other? > > > > We need the mirror target to perform disk remappings (eg, pvmove). > > See http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/pvmove_outline.txt > > > > Does LVM2 support software mirroring? > Will the dm mirror target only be used for pvmove, or will it be > used for mirroring volumes also? pvmove will be first, then mirroring at the LV rather than PV level will follow. - Joe
