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.