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Re: compiler errors: md needed for hardware raid?



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:54PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Lars Oeschey <extern.lars.oeschey@audi.de> writes:
> 
> > Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2003 15:19 schrieb Falk Hueffner:
> > mh, ok... But I found that I need some kind of software raid, I have 
> > several partitions on external cabinets (that old mylex controllers 
> > support partitions only up to 32Gb) and I want to combine those to one 
> > big drive.
> > I took a look ant md and LVM now, but what I didn't find is, does LVM 
> > need md? or is it more of a replacement for it?
> > Cause then I could just use LVM...
> 
> I think LVM2 can do at least raid0 on its own. I don't know whether it
> is well-tested on Alpha, though, I've never used it :)

LVM works fine on Alpha, though personally I'm using LVM2 now :-)

Yes it wil do RAID0 without md. if you want RAID1 or RAID5 then you need to set
up md and /then/ LVM

-- 

patrick



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