Hi, I'll give you my setup. I have a 5 36Gb SCSI disks machine which do MD+LVM+ext2 on them Each disk is splitted in 4 (~9Gb each partition) and then grouped 5 by 5 to form 4 MD (md5, md6, md7, md8) each ~36Gb in RAID5. Then these 4 MDs are added in a VG and LVs are created for each need (CVS, HOMES, FILES, ...). The machine is a PIII 733 with 256Mb RAM and has RH7.1 installed I use MD 0.90.0, LVM 1.0.1rc1 and e2fsprogs 1.23. I have NO reiserfs nor XFS nor JFS. All that works fine for me with little problems since upgrade to LVM-0.9.1-beta7 Each partition on the physical disk is marked as fd (Linux RAID autodectect) then pvcreate is made on /dev/md[5678] . There is no need to put either "Linux Native (83)" nor "Linux LVM (8e)" on the /dev/md1 or something like that. Just the fd on physical partitions will do the trick. Hope this helps. -jec > -----Original Message----- > From: svetljo [mailto:galia@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de] > Sent: mardi, 4. septembre 2001 19:44 > To: bluca@comedia.it; linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: what i need is a little attention-RE [linux-lvm] > SoftRaid and LVM Jean-Eric Cuendet > > > well the problem currently is that i can not format the LV > with ext2 or > reiserfs > in the beginning i could access the LV only with IBM's JFS and i had > troubles mounting it with XFS > but i've upgraded to 2.4.10-pre2-xfs-cvs and now i have no > problem with XFS but i still have the problem with ext2 and > reiserfs which i think is not > normal > and i'm wondering whether it's safe to use the LV > > i used e2fsprogs-1.23 and 1.24 and reiserfs progs 3.x.0j > but when i try to format the LV mke2fs and mkreiserfs segfaults > > and i can format normal partitions and software raid with mke2fs and > mkreiserfs > > > the VG : > > /dev/hdh10 > /dev/md6 software linear RAID > /dev/md7 software linear RAID > > the LV's are striped over the 3 PV's > > Luca Berra wrote: > > >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:08:10PM +0200, svetljo wrote: > > > >>if smbd take a look at all meseages with sender svetljo and with > >>subject > >>releated to PB's with LVM on software RAID > >> i think he'll get the idea what is all about > >> > >OK i am using lvm over softraid > >can you please do a recap. > > > >L. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linu> x-lvm > read the > LVM HOW-TO at > http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >
