[luau] LVM

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Tue Mar 4 19:56:01 PST 2003


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:07:17PM -1000, Eric Jeschke wrote:
> 2) I know it is possible to run LVM over RAID, or RAID over LVM (talking
>    about Linux's software RAID here).  The former seems to make more
>    sense to me, but is there a good reason to do the latter?

Hmm. If you decide to use the snapshot capability, I think the
prior method would be cleaner.

> Before anyone mentions it, I know EVMS is better, but I'd prefer to run
> code that has been accepted into the official kernels, and I know EVMS
> has not been merged into the kernel.

I really hope EVMS makes it into the kernel. Having soft RAID and
volume management as separate tools seems too bolted on.

-Vince



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