[Discuss] Insight about LVM

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> On 10/22/2011 08:55 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> I'm looking to hear from people using it, things they like, things they
>> dislike, oddities they've encountered, etc.
>
> Only negative I've heard is:
>
> If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the
> disks goes bad, the file system on your LV will be corrupted/lost.  (I
> think this is similar to RAID-0?)  So, IIRC, currently best practice is
> that if your goal is to make a large volume group made up of several
> physical volumes, that the physical volumes should be redundant RAID
> devices themselves to avoid this problem.

And that would be the same as any raid-0
>
> Perhaps someone else can confirm/refute this?
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
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