[ale] Recommendations on mirrored LVM..?

[Christopher Fowler]

Can you use ext3 on LVM under Linux.  The only experience I had with LVM
is under Suse.

Chris

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 19:15, Eric Webb wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working towards putting together a large, cheap disk repository with a 
> little redundancy.  The goal here isn't performance, but more of creating a 
> big chunk'o'disk that is somewhat protected.
> 
> I'm interested in running the LVM code based on experience with it under AIX. 
>  A few questions come up though:
> 
> 1.  ext3 or reiserfs?
> 
> 2.  How do I mirror the dang thing?  AIX supports lvcopies, which is what I'd 
> like to do, but I don't believe the Linux LVM does.  The only idea I can come 
> up with is to use the raidtools to create a mirrored device, and then feed 
> that device to the LVM code.  Will that work?  Will it work WELL?  Doesn't 
> sound as flexible to me.
> 
> 3.  Please don't suggest hardware (yet).  I'm planning on a 3ware card down 
> the road, but I just can't afford it now.
> 
> Forgive me if I'm describing something wrong here -- I'm well aware of the 
> principles of what I want to do, I'm just not familiar with the Linux 
> implementation of those principles yet ;)
> 
> 
> -E.
> 
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