On 4 June 2012 09:55, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/3/2012 5:05 PM, Andy Smith wrote: […] > >> Kinda off-topic question — why having separate MDs for swap and > >> root? I mean LVM's lv would be just fine for them. > > > > I know, but I'm kind of old-fashioned and have some (probably > > unwarranted) distrust of having the really essential bits of the > > system in LVM if they don't really need to be. > > I wouldn't say unwarranted. I've seen instances on this and other lists > where an md array blew chunks, was repaired and everything reported > good, only to have LVM devices corrupted beyond repair. Or both md and Sounds like urban myths to me. LVM's dev-mapper here is nothing more as merely block look-up/translation table. -- -- 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
