nice i don't know if LVM make a more overhead but it's a very feature =) thanks again guys! 2011/1/29 Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 01/28/2011 08:22 PM, Hank Barta wrote: >> >> One exception: Grub (and perhaps LILO) can boot from a RAID1 partition >> because the individual partition looks like a plain file system. It >> requires v 0.9 metadata which stores the superblock at the end of the >> partition. (Don't ask me how I know! ;) ) > > Grub2 can boot from raid1, raid0, raid5, it doesn't care ( without a plain > /boot partition ). > >> I have used LVM to partition a RAID5. I have no idea if it adds >> significant overhead vs. partitioning the RAID itself if that were >> possible. It was arcane enough for me to not care to do it again. It >> appears to have some powerful capabilities that were not needed by me. > > With LVM you can do online resize and moves, and don't run into issues > trying to expand a partition and having to take forever to move an adjacent > one over to make room, or other issues with the 4 primary partition limit. > I find these to be pretty handy. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
