-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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". - -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD+2MBV3G/IBCn/JARAqWfAJ950ZB2Q2EgkVI+q7Z81fDKBqtiOwCfR1QH u/RK6aywiCbthI+f1+5y7ig= =MhPZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
