how would you go about getting the best of both worlds? raid the disks then put them in an LVM? do you have any details on that? it sounds nice.
On 2/21/06, Gustavo Zacarias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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 > > -- Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for. -- [email protected] mailing list
