i see, sounds like a lot of trouble just because of an old RAID card though, i'm sure it would slow you down somewhat too. thanks for the info.. On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dave Mason wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:00:34 -0500 (EST), Justin Zygmont <jzygmont@solarflow.dyndns.org> said: > > > why would you want to use a LVM on top of RAID? > > I'm not the person you're responding to, but I use it because I have > an old (hardware) RAID5 which can only support about 32GB per volume, > so LVM lets me combine 3 of them into 1 and then partition them back > out in useful sized pieces. > > ../Dave >
