[linux-lvm] lvm on linux RAID5?

Jon Bendtsen jon+lvm at silicide.dk
Thu Oct 17 04:06:43 UTC 2002


Goetz Bock wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 16 '02 at 15:02, Anders Henriksson wrote:
> > I want to run lvm over four linux raid5 devices, can I just treat the
> > raid devices as discs? i.e. run pvcreate on them directly and go on from
> > there.
> You've more than 12 discs in your box? No? Oh, if you ment you're trying
> to run LVM ontop of a 4disk RAID5 drive (using linux md drivers), than
> try:

No, he doesnt have 12 disks. He wrote he have 4 which is splitted into
4.
aka, 4 disks made into a raid5, and then 4 partitions, and he wants to
run
LVM ontop of (one of) those partitions. (rather silly to split it into
partitions
for then to run LVM...)




JonB




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