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From: Matt Stegman <mas9483@cis.ksu.edu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: partitions for RAID volumes?
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote:

> On Wednesday February 21, Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any chance that RAID volumes would support partitions like the
> > hard-disk driver in the future? 
> 
> Yep.
> See: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.2-pre4/
> 
> You would need patches H,I,N,O,P,Q,R,  and you should consider this a
> very early release, but it works for me.
> ...
> Using this, I can RAID1 hda and hdc together as md0 == mda and then
> partition it up as mda1 (root) mda2 (swap) mda3 (other).  And if I
> have too, I can boot off either drive individually with any raid
> happening.

Is there any particular reason to prefer this over LVM?  With 2.4, LVM can
be a layer atop of software RAID, allowing for multiple volumes, online
volume resizing, and other cool things.

-Matt Stegman
<mas9483@cis.ksu.edu>


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