On May 19, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/19/2012 02:10 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:58:54AM -0700, ben wrote: >>> Does all the new RAID MD support mean the standard LVM type of mirrors and >>> stripes will go away or at least not be further developed? >> >> Current thinking: >> >> Stripes remain as-is (they're very simple, it's not worth changing). >> >> Preferred mirror switches to md, but existing mirror implementation >> remains available and continues to be used for temporary mirrors like >> pvmove. >> > > IOW, md is "best practice" for mirroring? I would say so. It has a number of improvements over the original that help it deal better with snapshots and transient failures. You can make the "raid1" segment type the default type by setting 'mirror_segtype_default' in lvm.conf. brassow _______________________________________________ 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/
