On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:09, Tobias Gablunsky wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:49, Tobias Gablunsky wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I didn't find clear information about how to use LVM on an > > (Software) > > > RAID-Mirror (or RAID-5). All I found, were problems: LVM > > uses Partition > > > Type > > 0x8E but Linux Soft-RAID uses 0xFD - this dosn't look very > > > compatible... A solution would be to use Hardware-RAID of > > course. But I'm > > > wondering if there is a way to use Software-RAID and LVM > > together - I > > > cannot believe that I am the first one with this question! Am I? > > > > I just created the software raid, and pointed pvcreate at it. > > Works like a charm. > > Well thats fine but if you want your kernel to boot use your RAID-Volumes > automatically you have to give it partition type 0xFD. And if you want > automatically mounted LVM you need to give it the partition type 0x8E But why? Your RAID set will be made on say /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 creating say /dev/md0, but your lvm partition will exist on /dev/md0. -- Geoff Dolman JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/todd/ _______________________________________________ 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/
