Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 07:37:41PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm > tools use the Linux md driver code to implement RAID on the backend; > but have completely different user facing tools and on-disk metadata. > So it's best to be famil

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or indeed btrfs but the raid stuff in there is not yet complete. #ZFSFTW On 29 March 2015 at 03:45, Andrew Holway wrote: > Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ > > On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm >> tools use the L

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm > tools use the Linux md driver code to implement RAID on the backend; > but have completely different user facing tools and on-disk metadata. > So i

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Chris Murphy
It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm tools use the Linux md driver code to implement RAID on the backend; but have completely different user facing tools and on-disk metadata. So it's best to be familiar with the troubleshooting and recovery process for each more than c

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/28/2015 7:51 AM, Stephen wrote: in Cent OS 7 after a power on, I experienced multiple errors in the device-mapper mirror: device lookup error and EXT4-fs error_lookup 1437 deleted inode reference does this have anything to do with Fred Smith's question about Using LVM to implement RAID

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Stephen
Hi, in Cent OS 7 after a power on, I experienced multiple errors in the device-mapper mirror: device lookup error and EXT4-fs error_lookup 1437 deleted inode reference I assume these are the VMs Is this always going to happen when I reboot the system? Will I experience data loss or corrupt

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 08:48:52AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I've recently noticed that recent versions of LVM include RAID > capabilities, so that one could presumably implement (e.g.) RAID-1 > without having to use Linux Software RAID. > > Given the complexity of LBM, I'm wondering