7 Oct
2009
7 Oct
'09
9 p.m.
Joesph,
You can create PVs out of any block device (even LVs).
You don't need to partition past the raw device storage, even that is optional, but recommended so other OSs know that, yes the space is actually used, if your using a volume manager like LVM. If you need to create a partition on a raw multi-terabyte device, you will need a GPT partition table as MBR stops working at 2TB I believe.
Yea, I just pv'ed the raw MD devices out of haste, I only know how to set partition type in script mode with parted, priceless... No time to test what happens w/ parted and manipulating labels etc on MD devices wrt to what happens under them. Bah:)
Its running! jlc