On 07/11/12 15:43, Hal Martin wrote:
The software we're testing does not support being installed on LVM, so if we want vendor support we need to install it on a partition.
Hardware RAID is going to be used for deployment, but for lab testing we were hoping to use mdadm and avoid buying expensive RAID controllers.
Creating multiple RAID arrays looks like the only supported solution, although it's quite annoying when partitonable md support would make it much simpler.
Was it ever supported upstream? Or did it fall out of favour when LVM became a popular installation method?
-Hal
Then the solution is simple, run the server with a traditional, supported software raid and install a virtual machine on top of it. ;-)
AFAIK partitionable md has never been supported, by any distribution, not only by RedHat.