[KLUG Members] any experience with Debian Sarge & Dell 39160 SCSI controller?

[Green Proc]

Which version of Debian are you using?  Etch/Sarge?  And are you using 
an SMP kernel, or just starting with one processor?  From what I have 
researched so far there seems to be needed kernel support to grow LVM's 
over hardware RAID.  Sorry to ask details instead of providing answers, 
but I think these details may affect the answer(s).

Richard Harding wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:27 -0400, adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>I did a presentation on LVM & MD not too long ago.
>>
>>What do you want to know?  I'm assuming the Debian installer lets you create
>>logical volumes some kind of wizard?
>>
> 
> It appears the Debian installer supports setting up LVM on install. What
> I am trying to figure out and envision is how this works. 
> 
> 1) So I setup the 3 drives in RAID 5. This gives me one "disk" to the
> partitioner that the LVM is setup on. Out of that I would setup
> a /boot /var /home and then I usually just leave the rest to /
> 
> 2) So let's say that /home is getting full and I want to add another
> disk to it. Is it still going to be possible to add the disk to the raid
> array and somehow get that space into the LVM setup? All the docs I see
> have the examples just adding a new disk and mounting it then adding it
> to the LVM space. No one seems to talk about how it works with a RAID
> setup. 
> 
> I know I can set it up, what I don't know is if it is going to let me do
> what I want to do which is have a hot-swap disk in the machine and still
> be able to expand the filesystem as needed in the future. 
> 
> Thanks so much for the advice. 
> 
> Rick
> 
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