John, On 27/11/15 14:25, John Stoffel wrote: > > I suspect it could have been made to work, but in my experience, > there's a very active MD developer (Neil, who would love more help!) > who does a great job of the pure RAID features that MD provides. > > The DM guys are more based on logical block management in my > experience, and so don't do nearly as much in the RAID side of > things. > > But in any case, the above setup works really well, and gives you a > good seperation of the layers and is easy to manage and control. > > I'm planning on migrating all my setup to a lvm-cache setup, with a > pair of 4TB disk mirrored (and possibly a third mirror of two striped > 2Tb drives... belt and suspenders!) with a pair of MX200 SSDS, 500Gb > for boot and cache duties. Should be a nice fast setup, and take less > power as well. That sounds interesting and also fun! My next step is to get the rest of the partitions on my two disks (/boot etc) mirrored so if I lose one of the disks the system will still boot up and run. I've seen some guidance on how to do this. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Analyst, University of Manchester. T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093, F: +44 (0) 705 344 3082, M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039, E: tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk _______________________________________________ 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/
