Re: partitions for RAID volumes?

Matt Stegman (mas9483@cis.ksu.edu)
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:47:36 -0600 (CST)


On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote:

> On Wednesday February 21, Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any chance that RAID volumes would support partitions like the
> > hard-disk driver in the future?
>
> Yep.
> See: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.2-pre4/
>
> You would need patches H,I,N,O,P,Q,R, and you should consider this a
> very early release, but it works for me.
> ...
> Using this, I can RAID1 hda and hdc together as md0 == mda and then
> partition it up as mda1 (root) mda2 (swap) mda3 (other). And if I
> have too, I can boot off either drive individually with any raid
> happening.

Is there any particular reason to prefer this over LVM? With 2.4, LVM can
be a layer atop of software RAID, allowing for multiple volumes, online
volume resizing, and other cool things.

-Matt Stegman
<mas9483@cis.ksu.edu>

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