On Friday, 06 September 2002, at 09:51:00 -0400, Scott Savarese wrote: > I am trying to set up mirroring on my system with LVM. Is there a command > to do it in LVM, or do I need the raidtools as well? > The best configuration would be a LVM setup on top of some kind (RAID1 for mirroring) of software or hardware RAID. This way you get the benefits of both RAID (redundancy) and LVM (space management and snapshots among others). > The ultimate goal is a completely mirrored harddrive so that I if my boot > drive fails (on that disk are /, swap, and /boot) I can swap the two > drives and reboot. > If one physical drive fails in a RAID1 configuration you shouldn't need to reboot the box, and the failure would go mostly unnoticed to you. > Or is it preferered to create LV's with LVM, and then run RAID ontop of > the LVM disks? (and then mirror /boot seperately). > Better the other way: RAID on top of physical disks (to get protection against a disk failure) and above RAID (be it sotf or hard) LVM (the inner layer gives you RAID1 capabilities, and LVM works as usual). -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (Linux 2.4.19-pre6aa1) _______________________________________________ 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
