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

[Richard Harding]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Green Proc wrote:
> 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).

The plan is to use Sarge which installs a non-smp kernel by default. The
first thing from there would be to install an smp kernel from there. 

I've been doing some more reading and I think my concern falls into two
areas. When you add a disk to hardware raid can you do that without
losing existing data in the raid? I've never tried it and that's more a
concern with the hardware raid than LVM. 

The second concern is that it seems if things do go bad it's a lot
harder to recover because most rescue cds or Live CDs don't support
mounting up an LVM volume to recover any data. 

Thanks 

Rick