[linux-lvm] [3 Questions... (fwd) (fwd)

[Michael Marxmeier]

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-------- Original Message --------
From: Stephan Mueller <Stephan.Mueller at suse.de>
Organization: SuSE Muenchen GmbH
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] [3 Questions... (fwd)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 07:53:01 +0100

Am Die, 04 Jan 2000 schrieben Sie:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 3 Questions...
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:44:36 +0000 (GMT)
> From: James Pattinson <jamesp at emporia.u-net.com>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a few questions... well... I keep thinking of more :)
> 
> 1. Raid / LVM
> 
> Does anyone have a patch against 2.2.13 that contains both the LVM
> patch
> and the super-raid patch (the one that uses MMX)? I want to get max
> performance by having a striped /dev/md0 as my PV. 

Why are you doing this?? Just use each physical harddisk as a PV. And
after this you can combine several PVs within one VG (yes, it is
simmilar
to a stripped softraid). AFAIK you will have a performace drop when
you use a
LVM on top of a (softraid-) stripped device.

Cheers
Stephan