On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:49:26PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I've been setting up software RAID-1 configurations > since Fedora Core 2 with normal partitions instead of > using LVM. I was wondering what the consensus was about > using LVM for software RAID partitions? My inclination > is that, unless one plans on adding additional drives > to the LVM partitions later, it really only adds another > layer of code that can break. Thanks in advance for > any comments. I use LVM on top of raid-1 mirrored devices. LVM has other advantages as well, including the ability to shift space from one filesystem to another. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>