On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:54:52 +0700 > Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > LVM does do striping according to the man page. I've never tried it, >> > mostly because LVM is the wrong place to do that IMHO. >> > >> > Use RAID for that instead and leave LVM to do what it's good at - >> > managing storage volumes >> > >> >> Ah, thanks for the correction. Anyways, I agree with your last >> sentence. >> >> Soft-RAID is always a catastrophe waiting to happen. >> > > My experience has always been that Linux software raid gets the job > done perfectly, every time, no issues and has never failed me. > > Hardware RAID is another story, especially those cheap nasty > onboard pseudo-RAID thingies. DOubly so if the name Adaptec appears > anywhere.
Seconding software raid. Looking forward to btrfs being full-featured, though, as integrating lvm and raid functionality sanely into the filesystem a la ZFS is going to be very, very nice. -- :wq
