Unforgiving Software Raid (2.4.20)

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> However, I will offer this rant:
> LVM and RAID between different versions are anything but friendly.  eg.  This
> is a SuSE 8.2 box, running 2.4.20.  When I booted off the SuSE9.0 and 9.1 and
> Ubuntu cd's I was able to create everything just how I wanted it.  But I had
> a difficult time getting any of the others to read the drive.  I can
> understand not going from 2.6 to 2.4, but between the different 2.6 kernels
> you might think things work.

I have a web server in production using software RAID - I have gone
through various kernel upgrades (2.6.5 all the way up to 2.6.12) without
any problems.


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