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On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 20:09 -0500, Ben Holland wrote: > From what I understand about LVM's it doesn't buy you anything and will make > your headache only so much worse. Agreed. > If you have a computer that allows 3 > drives in it, chances are very high that it will have a raid 5 controller > built in I'd wager more like 50-50. I've seen plenty of 2U boxes that have 4 to 6 drive bays and don't come with any RAID controller at all, let alone one capable of RAID 5. > if it doesn't you have several options. RAID 1 2 drives using 2 > other drives as backup, Software raid 5 3 drives using one as a hotspare, > software raid 4 drives (this benefit is that you don't loose AS much disk > space as the other 2). LVM doesn't buy you anything, sure you can group > together volumes but if a drive dies, then you loose all the LVM's > associated with it Not quite. You can actually do a vgremove of the dead drive, and typically recover any files that were completely confined to the remaining disks/volume groups. > this is bad and in fact your LVM controller may really > hate you Um... There is no such thing as an LVM controller. Its all done in software by the kernel. -- Jarod Wilson [hidden email] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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