> No, but I have setup an LVM physical volume on top of an RAID1 MD > device before. I did it from within the Debian installer, and > without issue. Are you sure this is not what you want? I'm not sure > I understand the purpose of an MD device made from an LVM physical > volumes...
Same question here. I've built LVM on MD on amd64 twice, once from the installer and once manually from the installer shell, no serious problems either time. Are you trying to run LVM and just back up one volume of it on a smaller disk? > > You should keep swap partitions off of MD devices. If you've > multiple swap partitions, you can pass the "pri" option to stripe > among your swap partitions (ala RAID0) for a slightly performance > boost. Running RAID1, RAID5, etc for a swap partition is a waste of > diskspace and CPU cycles. > The kernel has a tendancy to store some data in swap even with lots of free RAM, and there is a danger that the failure of a disk containing a RAID0 swap could cause a crash or other unpleasantry. It could just as easily not, of course, but I've used MD + LVM for small-scale production apps a few times and also am a bit paranoid =P. Anyhow, I've always preferred swap over RAID1/5 md wherever possible. - -- John Livingston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
