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Subject: Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6
From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:11, Neil Brown wrote:
> RFCI =3D=3D Request For Clever Ideas.
>=20
> Hi all..
>=20
>  I want be able to partition "md" raid arrays.
>  e.g. I want to be able to use RAID1 to mirror sda and sdb as whole
>  drives, and then partitions that into root, swap, other (or whatever
>  suits the particular situation).

<snip>

Can't LVM do this?  I have a raid array (mirror) that is LVM'd into
multiple partitions.  It currently runs 2.4, but it should work fine
with 2.6, right?  All the rest of my boxes have 2.6 and LVM, but no raid
(no duplicate hard drives).
--=20
Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>

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