[linux-lvm] LVM mirroring questions...

Morten Torstensen morten at mortent.org
Tue Apr 29 10:17:21 UTC 2008


Marcin Kałuża wrote:
> Why software RAID is not an option? It works with partitions as well as with
> whole disks (actually it doesn't care what it is working on as long as it's
> a block device)

Because doing mirroring in the LVM is much easier as you don't have to 
set up the md layer. Simple LE to multiple PE mapping is easy to do and 
makes LVM mirroring easy and flexible.

//Morten




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