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LVM and NFS mounts



Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Personally, I don't use LVM to create really huge filesystems (ie spanning
> multiple disks) because I care about my data.  I use multiple disks to create
> a RAID-1 array, then use the RAID array as the physical device for the LVM.

This is what I did.  I created RAID-1 md devices across a pair of disks
and then use LVM to combine those RAID-1 md devices into a single
logical volume.

> Gives the flexibility at the filesystem level of LVM, while keeping the
> benefits of RAID.

Agreed.  Even better now that pvresize works.  :)

> Matt

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