On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Saturday 21 March 2015 11:18:44 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > wrote: >> > Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device? >> >> When I was using mdadm I would do it all the time. It is the easiest >> way to do RAID with devices of different sizes. You just set up >> multiple arrays across partitions of the same sizes and then combine >> everything with LVM. > > Thanks Rich. > > I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from combining /dev/sd[ab]X > - I assume you meant the same. > > Interesting that the installation doc doesn't mention it though. Or it > didn't when I used it to build this box.
Oh, I wouldn't install partitions on top of an md raid device. I probably would use it as an lvm physical volume though. -- Rich
