linux-kernel - Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs

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Message-ID: <20080502012337.GD13463@tull.net>
Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:37 +1000
From:	Nick Andrew <nick@...k-andrew.net>
To:	Alex Davis <alex14641@...oo.com>
Cc:	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:35:07AM -0700, Alex Davis wrote:
> Is this a bad thing? I'm guessing that it is, but I want independent
> confirmation before I spoke to someone I know who's doing this.

I use it to ensure that multiple partitions are RAIDed. I have a /boot
partition which is ext3 and a large LVM partition. Both of them are
RAID-1 onto a second drive (md0 and md1) for redundancy. The second
drive has an identical partition table to the first drive.

Nick.
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