[Gllug] LVM & RAID

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 4 02:12:07 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 02:03 +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:45:37AM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm about to set up a machine and would like to use both LVM and md on
> > it. The machine will have two disks, and I want them set up as a mirror
> > set, with LVM layered on top of this.
> 
> Be aware that by stacking fairly complex subsystems like this you may
> potentially run into stack overflows in the kernel if you are using
> CONFIG_4KSTACKS

Yep - the 4k stack problem is one I'm aware of, and I actually want to
use the machine in question to test Xen on. Dom0 will be Debian, with
XFS on LVM on MD, and the DomU setup will be similar. So, 8k stacks
it'll be for now...

Mike

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