Hi Everybody, I tried it exactly as Martin says and it works until you try to reboot. On my Red Hat 9 soft RAID would not be restarted since my entry in fstab is in the form: /dev/testvg/mylv /export/home ........ I found the work around for that issue ie: since rc.sysinit looks for md entry in fstab you need to set INFSTAB variable =1 in rc.sysinit then soft RAID will start and your LVM file system will be mounted. Since I'm new to the group I hope I'm not saying obvious things. I only had to do that to get mirroring since I wasn't able to install LVM2 on Red Hat 9. Regards Wojtek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Mosny" <mmosny@postel.sk> To: "Tobias Gablunsky" <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: Re: LVM and RAID > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > As Goetz Bock say - just use 0xFD for raid > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda3 138 9729 77047740 fd Linux raid autodetect > > make all the raid stuff: > > raiddev /dev/md1 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 64k > persistent-superblock 1 > nr-spare-disks 0 > device /dev/hda3 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/hdb3 > raid-disk 1 > > after them make all the lvm stuff > > - -- > Best regards > Martin Mosny > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.5i > > iQA/AwUBP6ekmJdguByG9Q4aEQIjTgCgsg/JtvApZ9n/+UL0aMxaw9EWlP8AoPNH > YZrCN2UFMQHiyEOfnL5fEm3P > =bNPf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -)îÆ[æT¨¥Sx%SËeS{±-ù¬SËb?§(sm§ÿåSËl²+-Svo¢oæj)fjåSËb?ú?-)îÆ[ææ?¶<TÁÎY3 s¶m§ÿí.Úh®Ç9dÎüµLå" _______________________________________________ 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/