On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:54PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Lars Oeschey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2003 15:19 schrieb Falk Hueffner: > > mh, ok... But I found that I need some kind of software raid, I have > > several partitions on external cabinets (that old mylex controllers > > support partitions only up to 32Gb) and I want to combine those to one > > big drive. > > I took a look ant md and LVM now, but what I didn't find is, does LVM > > need md? or is it more of a replacement for it? > > Cause then I could just use LVM... > > I think LVM2 can do at least raid0 on its own. I don't know whether it > is well-tested on Alpha, though, I've never used it :)
LVM works fine on Alpha, though personally I'm using LVM2 now :-) Yes it wil do RAID0 without md. if you want RAID1 or RAID5 then you need to set up md and /then/ LVM -- patrick
