Mike> Wouldn't it be more sensible to mirror the disks, then stick Mike> your LVs on top of that? This is what I have done with a Mike> software RAID5 array. Well, it could make more sense that way, but I was trying to get it do that I could move and expand/shrink the filesystems as needed on the various volumes. The other downside of the MD underneath LVM is that when a MD RAID goes bad, I need to resync the entire disk. In my setup, if I don't have it mounted (or being used) and I corrupt it, there's less data to have to re-mirror. At least that was my goal. Mike> At first this didn't work, as the startup scripts Gentoo provide Mike> initialise LVM before MD, but that was easily changed. Yeah, I thinking I need to just tweak the scripts under debian as well, but I wanted to find out what people found to be the best way to do this. John _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
