RAID/Root Update

David Bandel david.bandel
Wed Feb 9 10:49:35 PST 2005


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:13:13 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Well, I'm not willing to settle for it just yet, but by removing the LVM
> > from /dev/md0 and simply using it as one filesystem I'm able to boot ok
> > off the md* devices...  Now, just need to figure out the trick to
> > telling the kernel to boot from LVM *on* md.  So far, I can do either,
> > but not both.
> 
> I couldn't get that combination to work myself ;-/

sure you're not going about that backwards?  Shouldn't you do LVM
_then_ create the MD devices on top?  Seems if you create LVM on top
of RAID you'd loose the ability to expand the raid disks.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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