From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: "Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:39:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050121203938.GB25934@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106336028.3369.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Trever L. Adams wrote:
> Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help.
>
> However, there is one more set of questions I have.
>
> Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits?
>
> If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use
> labels in /etc/raidtab and with the tools so that when the disks, if
> they do, get renumbered in /dev that all works fine. I am aware that the
> kernel will autodetect these devices, but that the raidtab needs to be
> consistent. This is what I am trying to figure out how to do.
EVMS can handle this for you. I've used it with a raid set I made with some
of the drives being on usb and some on ide.
If you use evms, you might want to consider the activation after all disks
have been discovered.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-21 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 19:51 LVM2 Trever L. Adams
2005-01-20 21:40 ` LVM2 Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-20 22:02 ` LVM2 Alasdair G Kergon
2005-01-20 22:22 ` LVM2 Trever L. Adams
2005-01-20 22:34 ` LVM2 Alasdair G Kergon
2005-01-21 9:12 ` LVM2 Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-20 22:17 ` LVM2 Trever L. Adams
2005-01-20 22:23 ` LVM2 William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-20 22:25 ` LVM2 Jeffrey E. Hundstad
2005-01-20 22:42 ` LVM2 Steve Lord
2005-01-21 9:24 ` LVM2 Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-24 0:38 ` LVM2 Kyle Moffett
2005-01-21 19:33 ` md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2] Trever L. Adams
2005-01-21 20:39 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2005-01-24 4:19 ` Neil Brown
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