> Is it possible to make lvm with raid ?? Is there anyone here that make it? > thanks.
I use LVM over software RAID 1 (mirroring). I use Debian stable and I decided that boot partition over LVM was not worth, specially because of trouble in case of disaster recovery. So my RAID is as follow: md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] Boot md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0] Swap md2 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] LVM Then I made a logical volume group vg0 and I put only /dev/md2 into. Finally I created two logical volumes for /var and /home. So my mount schema is: Filesystem Mounted on /dev/md0 / /dev/vg0/var /var /dev/vg0/home /home Very simple. I also avoided initrd with a self-made kernel, just added into /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/md0 root=/dev/md0 raid-extra-boot = "/dev/hda,/dev/hdc" ... I just have a problem with files larger than 2Gb. I can create those files (.tar.gz in my case), but I cannot read them back with cp, scp, cat or wahtever. The very strange thing is that if I do "strace cp" or whatever, it works! Don't know if this problem is related to LVM, I use Debian Woody, lvm10 1.0.4-4, raidtools2 0.90.20010914-15. Other boxes with raid and no lvm works properly. -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy War against Iraq? Not in my name!
