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I have used LVM on top of software raid and ISCSI. It works well. It also helps keep track of what device is where. ISCSI does not export its targets in the same order, some times sdb shows up as sdc.... LVM will keep track of what is what.<BR>
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Matt<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:53 -0500, Alexander Lazarevich wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">We have several RAID devices (16-24 drive Fiber/SCSI attached RAID) which </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">are currently single devices on our 64bit linux servers (RHEL-4, core5). </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">We are considering LVM'ing 2 or more of the RAID's into a LVM group. I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">don't doubt the reliability and robustness of LVM2 on single drives, but I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">worry about it on top of RAID devices.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone have any experience with LVM on to of RAID volumes, positive </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">or negative?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Alex</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">read the LVM HOW-TO at <A HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</A></FONT>
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