LVM and RAID

[Aaron Grewell]

> 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?
> 

We're using LVM on RH, and so far I've been quite happy with it.  It's much
more flexible than standard partitions.  I haven't hit any gotchas, since
the distro shipped with it and all the support appears to be there.  I'd be
more cautious if you were adding it after the fact, but all SuSE's tools
should support it out of the box IIRC.

> 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?
> 
> 

The docs seem to suggest that you can, but the boxes I've used LVM in all
had hardware RAID, so I can't speak from experience.