[linux-lvm] software mirroring

[Steven Lembark]

> /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 on my second hard drive telling it that my first
> harddrive was failed (so it wouldn't use it and break it). The first
> will hold my /boot and the second (for now) will hold my /. I then
> installed LVM onto my /dev/md1 and copied the filesystems over to the
> appropriate locations. However after I configure lilo and fstab I have
> issues. Depending on my lilo.conf I get either
> L 80 80 80 ...
> or
> LI

You will save yourself a lot of trouble if you
stick with hardware raid for the boot volume (i.e.,
the bios only sees a single device) and avoid LVM
altogeter for the root volume (assuming you put
/boot on /). Main reason is that if anything does
go wrong with LVM it's a pain to fix without LVM.

Until the X86 BIOS gets brains (and pigs floss...)
just use a simple partition for the root voume and
perhaps a second partition with a stand-alone rescue
system on the other drive. If you install LVM into
the root volume (e.g., /lvm) then yuo can at least
boot single-user and fix things.


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