From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RAID and LVM? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Jakma Cc: Luca Berra , linux-lvm@msede.de, bluca@colombina.comedia.it, linux-lvm@msede.com On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > new way! > you better check alans patch it is on kernel.org mirrors > > great... alan must have exercised his magic coding fingers and > massaged the two patches into their proper places :) (rather flame me for it ;) The new RAID driver will likely not go into 2.2.11, but into 2.2.12. Anyway, the new RAID 0723 release is much more merging-friendly wrt. LVM. > we have to set the partition as a raid autodetect partition > then create an initrd with the command > insmod lvm.o > vgscan > vgchange -a y > > uhmm.. but i think eventually for LVM on RAID autodetect to work > nicely, LVM is going to have to use some block device contents magic. > > or ideally for raid to be fully integrated into LVM, and create > RAID-5 VG's. or, considering the relative complexity of the two drivers (and the conceptual background), to integrate LVM into the concepts of RAID :) Or let them live side by side as now. -- mingo