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Andreas Haumer wrote: | Hi! | | Robin Bowes wrote: | |>>On Fri, June 4, 2004 7:29, Neil Brown said: |>> |>> |>>> - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option |>>> and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary |>>> device files after allocating an unused array number. |>> |>> |>>Neil, |>> |>>I am interpreting this to mean that I can create, for example, a large (e.g. 1TB) RAID5 |>>array and create smaller partitions (/home, /usr, etc) on top of the RAID5 array? Is |>>this correct? |>> | | Hm. | Why would anyone use this, given that we can put LVM on | top of SW-RAID?
Well I'd say to leave out one area of problems. LVM might get buggy or cause troubles. And if you can create partitions in a SW raid you can avoid that.
eg on a firewall I want only real necessary software and LVM is definitly not one of them ...
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