1833134 Members
3246 Online
110051 Solutions
New Discussion

RAID 5

 
SOLVED
Go to solution
Scott D. Allen
Regular Advisor

RAID 5

can i do raid 5 with lvm? do i need the mirror software add-on?

i have 3 new pv's that i've just added and pvcreated. i'm trying to setup a raid 5 array with them.

--Scott
"Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know."
1 REPLY 1
Brian M. Fisher
Honored Contributor
Solution

Re: RAID 5

LVM does not directly support RAID 5 only RAID 0 or RAID 1. RAID 5 would need to be setup at the hardware level.

Brian
<*(((>< er
Perception IS Reality