RAIDing with LVM vs MDRAID - pros and cons?In his answer to the question "mixed raid types", HBruijn suggests using LVM to implement RAID vs the more standard MDRAID. After a little investigation, it seems LVM also supports RAID functionality. In the past, I have used LVM on top of MDRAID, and was not aware till now that LVM also supports RAID functionality. This seems to be a relatively recent development, but I have not found out exactly
