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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote |
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> about '[gentoo-user] evms': |
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>>Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo |
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>>site seems very old and incomplete. |
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>>basically, i've got 3 hot-swappable scsi drives, but no raid |
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>>controller.. I want to end up with lvm logical volumes on top of a |
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>>software raid-5. but getting there with evms is presenting me some |
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>>issues. |
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> In your situation, I'd get rid of evms, it's not needed. Use mdadm to |
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> create a raid5 volume from your 3 drives, then use the command-line lvm |
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> tools to create a pv, vg, and all the lvs you want. |
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I agree. I tried to use evms and I was not very lucky. I am happily |
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running lvm on top of raid with mdadm lvm2. |
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Régis |
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