LVM and RAID

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>
> I have just been playing with Linux LVM and am quite impressed. It seems
> too simple. At least when set up from SUSE 9.2. I have a few questions
> for anyone who has worked with this:
>
> 1. Are there any gotchas when using a LVM on different distros? Aside
> from the fact that the config may be different? Anything in the LVM
> itself? If I set up a LVM on, say, SUSE, and later move to something
> else (I am not considering this - but I want to know), could I expect
> difficulties?
>
> 2. Can I set up a LVM that is also RAID? That is, having a file system
> with oodles of storage is fine, but what about failure protection?

I've not used LVM personally, but i've seen a ton of problems with people
using 4k stacks in their kernel, even more so with RAID+LVM.

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