[ale] Recommendations on mirrored LVM..?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jun 13 22:19:59 EDT 2002


Yes. ext3 will work on LVM drives. LVM is sort of like the old
multi-disk extend stuff in the kernel. Except it is more like what the
enterprise class machines use. As far as a filesystem thinks, it's just
another drive to use. 

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 22:02, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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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