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Nick Smith wrote:

> from everything ive read it doesnt look like LVM has any redundancy, i
> mean it is nice to be able to hotadd drives to your LV, but i need
> redundancy as well, so it looks like raid1 or 5 would be the way to
> go, because the backups would get more intensive as the LV grew right?
> what if one drive in your LV dies? do you lose everything on the LV?
> sorry for my ignorance, but this LVM is all new to me, and im not
> finding any clear answers googling on the net...

Well RAID and LVM are two completely different things, i don't know why
you people mix them up.
The best of both worlds is RAID1 or RAID5 + LVM.
RAID0 is basically the same that LVM does and is just concatenation - no
redundancy at all "a big bunch of disks".

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