You can mix and match any way you want. At my offwe we mirror (raid1) /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 the root partition then we use LVM's to merge /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdc2 into /dev/lvm/lvm1 (/dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdd2 make /dev/lvm/lvm2). The LVM's are mirrored /dev/lvm/lvm1 and /dev/lvm2. Software RAID is VERY flexible, just be careful to have your bits in the right order so you are protected.
Thus spake Jonathan Melhuish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Say I've got the following files:
>
> * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups,
> databases, etc.
> * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read
> quickly, eg. video
>
> Can I use software RAID-1 (mirroring) on a partition containing the
> first type of files and RAID-0 (striping) on the other partition?
>
> The Software-RAID-HOWTO kind-of implies that you can do this by
> specifying a partition number in the |/etc/raidtab file, but the
> description refers to "devices" throughout, not "partitions".|
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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