<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Okay, so software raid is cool , and I can see it's advantages over hardware raid..<br><br>but<br><br>If I install an ubunutu machine, I go through manual partitioning, and set up a raid 1<br>mirror (using two disks). If I then tell lvm to setup on that drive (raid device 0), the<br>install then tried to parition the md device into two parts, a ext3 /boot and the rest<br>as lvm.<br><br>as we all know you can't partition raid devices, so them comes meltdown.<br><br>I've tried to be clever too and create two raid device 1, for /boot and 1 for the lvm<br>but the install just tried to partition again...<br><br>???????????????<br><br>I presume you've all set up raid and lvm *after* the initial install of the o/s<br><br>enlighten me!!<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 31/7/08, Andrew Clayton <i><andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Ubuntu Install RAID 1 + LVM is a no go..<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Thursday, 31 July, 2008, 2:40 PM<br><br><pre>On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:25:43 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:<br><br>> Hi Lee,<br>> <br>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:59:31AM +0000, Lee Hughes wrote:<br>> > I've been messing around with raid 1 and lvm , before you tell me<br>> > that software raid is a bad idea, I know, I'm just playing around<br>> > with it.<br>> <br>> Why would anyone tell you it is a bad idea? It's fine, better than<br>> hardware in many cases, and always a lot better than none at all.<br><br>Absolutely, I use Linux's software RAID at work.<br><br>A 466GB RAID 5 (3 disks) and a 2.3TB RAID 5 (8 disks, 6 in use, 2 spare)<br><br>Been
stung by hardware RAID in the past.<br><br>Andrew<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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