is LVM safe for RAID-1?

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:49:26PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    I've been setting up software RAID-1 configurations
> since Fedora Core 2 with normal partitions instead of
> using LVM. I was wondering what the consensus was about
> using LVM for software RAID partitions? My inclination
> is that, unless one plans on adding additional drives
> to the LVM partitions later, it really only adds another
> layer of code that can break. Thanks in advance for
> any comments.

I use LVM on top of raid-1 mirrored devices. LVM has other advantages as
well, including the ability to shift space from one filesystem to another.

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