Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:29:27 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6 |
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:16:47AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2003-11-14T16:30:42, > Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> said: > > > There are issues with the raid superblock but assuming they can be > > solved, I want partitioning to work easily. > > > > Can LVM work happily with 'legacy' partitioning information? > > I'd really suggest to run DM (either LVM2 or EVMS2) on top of md > instead. It's much more flexible; I don't see any benefit in 'old style' > partition information, which has all sorts of problems - ie, > non-transactional updates (_why_ were you running raid again? ;), static > as they can't be modified during runtime etc.
This brings up a tangent point... partitions on top of RAID are a new thing, which means that one has the chance to define the partition format.
And I kinda like EFI partition format, a lot better than the other common ones...
Jeff
P.S. No, this isn't a blanket endorsement of EFI as a whole :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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