Hi, I would like to ask a question about what kind of block devices one can use with md raid. Until now I only used Linux raid autodetect partitions as raid members. I have a machine with 2 disks in a md raid 1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 182401 1465031610 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 is a lvm physical volume and contains one volume group with plenty of unused space. Now I got a SSD and I want to raid 1 the SSD with the existing rotating hard disks. I think with --write-mostly this should give me SSD like read performance. However, shrinking the lvm physical volume seems a little scary to me and I would like to avoid that. My idea was to put a Linux raid autodetect partition on the SSD together with a equally sized LVM logical volume. Would it work? Is it stupid? ( kind of I guess, the layering would be: partition - raid 1 of 2 harddisks - lvm - raid 1 with ssd and one lv - filesystem). I wondered about auto detection and performance. And, would this setup be reliable? Another variant of my idea was to pass through the ssd to the virtual machine (kvm) and do the raid 1 with ssd and virtual disk inside the guest. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -- 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
