Hi some month's ago i had a running LVM over sofware RAID-0 setup i have currently also a normal VG ( PV's are normal partitions) wich has no troubles with ext2 nad reiserfs but the new VG (containing striped LV's) which is /dev/hdh10 /dev/md6 linear software RAID /dev/md7 linear software RAID i can not format with ext2 or reiserfs , when i try mke2fs mkreiserfs they segfaults because of the troubles with ext2 and reiserfs i think that i can not be sure that everything with the LV's works but probably i'll try cpio-ing my installation over it and give it a try i'm running ABIT's BP6 2xCelleron533 512Mb RAM 2xWD 30Gb 1xMaxtor 40Gb raidtools-0.90 lvm-1.0.1rc2 e2fsprogs1.23 1.24 1.24a reiserfs-progs-3.x.0j and one more question about the min-max i don't speak "C" can you tell me how to do it with pre linux-2.4.9patches wich i wont to aply to linux-2.4.10pre2 and they are giving me problems with min-max definition Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: >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 >> > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >
/dev/hde1 dos partition /dev/hde5 /boot /dev/hde6 ------X----------> /dev/md7 linear software RAID ------------------------------------------------ | /dev/hde11------| ( raid-devs hde6 hde11) | /dev/hde7--------------------X----> VG wish PV's hde7 hdg8 hdh5 | /dev/hde8 -----------X---> that is /dev/md0 sofware RAID-0 | /dev/hde9 swap | | | /dev/hde10 ----------|-------|-----------X-------> /dev/md1 software RAID-0 | | | | | /dev/hdg1------------|-------|-----------|-------X------> /dev/md6 linear software RAID----------------------X--> VG myData /dev/hdg5------------|-------|-----------|-------X ( raid-devs hdg1 hdg5 hdg6 hdg12 ) | PV's hdh10 md6 md7 /dev/hdg6------------|-------|-----------|-------X | /dev/hdg7------------|-------|-----------|-------|------------X-----> /dev/md8 software RAID-0 | /dev/hdg8 -----------|-------X | | | (raid-devs hdg7 hdh8 ) | /dev/hdg9 -----------|-------|-----------X | | | /dev/hdg10 ----------X | | | | | /dev/hdg11 swap | | | | | | /dev/hdg12 ----------|-------|-----------|-------| | | | | | | | /dev/hdh1 dos partiton | | | | /dev/hdh5 -----------|-------| | | | /dev/hdh6 -----------| | | | /dev/hdh7--------------------------------| | | /dev/hdh8-----------------------------------------------------| | /dev/hdh9 swap | /dev/hdh10---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| X notifies conection i hope it's almost understandable now