Alan,

Nice reminder.  Like myself, a lot of people forget that LVM is not the only
way to aggregate volumes on Linux(/390).

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 and LVM


> Major bummer.  I was hoping to replace a PC mailserver,  but need much
more
> than 2GB (1 DASD) for /var.
> Trying to allocate more DASD volumes to different mountpoints within /var
> would be a nightmare.

LVM and md (the multidisk layer) are two things. lvm deals with dynamic
reassignment of space which is a nice thing to have. The md layer deals
with raid 0 1 and 5. With md you can concatenate and stripe volumes. You
can also do raid 1 and 5 although on S/390 I find it hard to see why you
would do that at the Linux level

Alan

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