On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:36, Michael Will wrote: > Can you use LVM to do mirroring and striping at the same time, or do you > need to use > software raid1 below LVM for that? > > When having multiple chassis, the risk is that a chassis goes down and > that part of a striped > LVM can affect the whole filesystem, going offline and if the drives > became corrupted for some > reason, it can have corrupted all of your data. If you used mirroring > between two physical volumes > on two enclosures and then stripe across those mirrors, you could > mitigate that.
You might check out EVMS. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
