I am having some trouble installing gentoo on a striped lvm setup. The architecture is AMD64 and it is Gentoo 2005.0. The system specs are: Athlon 64 3500+ MSI K8T Neo2-FIR 1 gig ddr400 ram FastTrak 150 sx4-m 3x Maxtor 120 gig sata drives Geforce 6800 Soundblaster Audigy DVD-RW DL Mouse + Keyboard The 3 sata 120 gig hard drives are attached to the FastTrak 150 sx4-m raid card. There is no array configured. I was gonna use hardware (apparently not possible with this card) or software raid 5 but ive heard of some problems with reliability. This setup was previously running Windows XP with no stability issues. The disk structure as reported by fdisk looks like this: /dev/sda /dev/sda1 100 mbs /boot /dev/sda2 2.5 gigs swap /dev/sda3 2 gigs / /dev/sda4 extended /dev/sda5 112 gigs approx Linux LVM /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 117 gigs approx Linux LVM /dev/sdac *this disk was gonna primarily be used for back up only purposes by doing snapshots After creating the lvm volumes according to the gentoo lvm guide (i am striping across the first 2 drives using 4k blocks) and formatting them with ext3, I encountered an error while installing some packages where one volume suddenly became read only. I ran e2fsck on the resulting volume devices and found several inode errors including imagic flag, dtime and linked list corruption errors. I tried multiple times to create these stripes, format them with ext3, and then run e2fsck without success. I recreated the volumes without striping and noticed no problems with e2fsck. Id like to use striping and don't see what i am doing wrong. Can lvm stripe across different sized partitions and if so, how are the stripes determined once one partition is used up? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
